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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      September 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511805431
      9780521805889
      9780521011877
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511805431
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.77kg, 410 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 412 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Politics: General Interest, Sociology: General Interest, Political Sociology, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
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    Subjects:
    Politics: General Interest, Sociology: General Interest, Political Sociology, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
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    In recent decades the study of social movements, revolution, democratization and other non-routine politics has flourished. And yet research on the topic remains highly fragmented, reflecting the influence of at least three traditional divisions. The first of these reflects the view that various forms of contention are distinct and should be studied independent of others. Separate literatures have developed around the study of social movements, revolutions and industrial conflict. A second approach to the study of political contention denies the possibility of general theory in deference to a grounding in the temporal and spatial particulars of any given episode of contention. The study of contentious politics are left to 'area specialists' and/or historians with a thorough knowledge of the time and place in question. Finally, overlaid on these two divisions are stylized theoretical traditions - structuralist, culturalist, and rationalist - that have developed largely in isolation from one another. This book was first published in 2001.

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    ‘Dynamics of Contention - written by three of the leading scholars of social movements and ‘contentious politics’ - is undoubtedly the most ambitious, and arguably the most important, book on social movements (and related phenomena) written in the past two decades.’

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