States, parties, and social movements / edited by Jack A. Goldstone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldstone, Jack A., editor.

Series:

Cambridge studies in contentious politics.

Cambridge studies in contentious politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political parties.

Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

States, Parties, & Social Movements

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Studies of social movements and of political parties have usually treated them as separate and distinct. In fact they are deeply intertwined. Social movements often shape electoral competition and party policies; they can even give rise to new parties. At the same time, political parties and campaigns shape the opportunities, personnel, and outcomes of social movements. In many countries, electoral democracy itself is the outcome of social movement actions. This book, first published in 2003, examines the interaction of social movements and party politics since the 1950s, both in the United States and around the world. In studies of the US Civil Rights movement, the New Left, the Czechoslovak dissident movements, the Mexican struggle for democracy, and other episodes, this volume shows how party politics and social movements cannot be understood without appreciating their intimate relationship.

Contents:

Introduction : Bridging institutionalized and noninstitutionalized politics / Jack A. Goldstone

Countermovements, the state, and the intensity of racial contention in the American south / Joseph Luders

State versus social movement : FBI counterintelligence against the New Left / David Cunningham

Setting the state's agenda : church-based community organizations in American urban politics / Heidi J. Swarts

State pacts, elites, and social movements in Mexico's transition to democracy / Jorge Cadena-Roa

Parties out of movements : party emergence in postcommunist Eastern Europe / John K. Glenn

From movement to party to government : why social policies in Kerala and West Bengal are so different / Manali Desai

Parties, movements, and constituencies in categorizing race : state-level outcomes of multiracial category legislation / Kim M. Williams

Protest cycles and party politics : the effects of elite allies and antagonists on student protest in the United States, 1930-1990 / Nella Van Dyke.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-80985-7

0-511-62546-4

1-107-31711-8

0-511-83938-3

1-107-31615-4

1-107-32154-9

1-299-31880-0

1-107-31517-4