TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coy,Patrick G.
TI  - Political opportunities, social movements and democratization
T2  - Research in social movements, conflicts, and change,
SN  - 9781849501057 (electronic bk.) :
AV  - HN1 .R47 v. 23
U1  - 303.48/4 22
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Amsterdam, New York
PB  - JAI
KW  - Social movements
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Social mobility
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Political science & theory
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Political Ideologies
KW  - Democracy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - As political opportunities shift, social movement decline or mobilization may result. The first section of this intriguing volume examines this phenomenon in depth while also moving theory-building forward. Significant contributions are made to collective identity theory, stalemate theory, and political process theory. This volume's concentration on political opportunity and social movements is accomplished through a focused series of papers that include case studies of specific social movements, comparative case studies of social movements, and comparative case studies of transnational issue networks. They include movements including the U. S. anti-nuclear power movement, the Rastafarians, the alternative and complimentary medicine movement, indigenous rights movements in Panama and Brazil, the animal rights movement, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, and the housing reform movements in post-Soviet Union Moscow and Budapest. A shorter, but no less important section closes this volume while taking up another historic focus of the series: social and political change. Here one paper documents democratization in Wales via the use of 'inclusive politics' by Plaid Cymru, another analyzes the use of 'political homicide' in Mexico during the 1990s, and a third explores campus unrest in the United States
UR  - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1016/S0163-786X(2001)23
ER  -