Contentious Politics

by Tilly, Charles; Tarrow, Sidney

• ISBN13: 9781594512469
• ISBN10: 1594512469
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-06
• Publisher: Paradigm Pub

Summary

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's Contentious Politics . The book presents a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of these very different sorts of contention. Drawing on many historical and contemporary cases, the book shows that similar principles describe and explain a wide variety of struggles as well as many more routine forms of politics. Tilly and Tarrow have written the book to introduce readers to an exciting new program of political and sociological analysis. To view Power Point slides of the last undergraduate course of Charles Tilly (with Ernesto Castaneda) in Spring 2007, which are related to his Paradigm book with Sidney Tarrow, Contentious Politics, please click here .

Author Biography

Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Boxes	ix
Preface	xi
1 Making Claims	1	(26)
2 How to Analyze Contention	27	(18)
3 Regimes, Repertoires, and Opportunities	45	(24)
4 Contentious Interaction	69	(20)
5 Mobilization and Demobilization	89	(22)
6 Social Movements	111	(24)
7 Lethal Conflicts	135	(28)
8 Contention in Composite Regimes	163	(20)
9 Contention Today and Tomorrow	183	(18)
Appendix A: Concepts and Methods	201	(10)
Appendix B: Streams, Episodes, Mechanisms, and Processes	211	(8)
References	219	(14)
Index	233	(12)
About the Authors	245