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Dynamics of Contention
Dissatisfied with the compartmentalization of studies concerning strikes, wars, revolutions, social movements, and other forms of political struggle, McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly identify causal mechanisms and processes that recur across a wide range of contentious politics. Critical of the static, single-actor models (including theirown) that have prevailed in the field, they shift the focus of analysis to dynamic interaction. Doubtful that large, complex series of events such as revolutions and social movements conform to general laws, they break events into smaller episodes, then identify recurrent mechanisms and processes within them. Dynamics of Contention examines and compares eighteen contentious episodes drawn from manydifferent parts of the world since the French Revolution, probing them for consequential and widely applicable mechanisms, for example, brokerage, category formation, and elite defection. The episodes range from nineteenth-century nationalist movements to contemporary Muslim–Hindu conflict to the Tiananmen crisis of 1989 to disintegration of the Soviet Union. The authors spell out the implicationsof their approach for explanation of revolutions, nationalism, and democratization, then lay out a more general program for study of contentious episodes wherever and whenever they occur. Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and Director Designate of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. His previous books include Political Process and the Development ofBlack Insurgency, 1930–1970 (1982, 1999) and Freedom Summer (1988), which shared the 1990 C. Wright Mills Award and for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to support research. Sidney Tarrow received his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1965, where he studied comparative politics and did the research for his first book, Peasant Communism in Southern Italy (1967). He taughtat Yale and Cornell before becoming Maxwell Upson Professor of Government (and then also of Sociology) at Cornell. He specializes in European politics and social movements and recently (with Doug Imig) has completed a collective volume entitled Contentious Europeans. Charles Tilly (Ph.D. in Social Relations, Harvard, 1958) is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at ColumbiaUniversity. His recent books include European Revolutions (1993), Popular Contention in Great Britain (1995), and Durable Inequality (1998), for which he received the 2000 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from the American Sociological Association.

Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Editors Doug McAdam Stanford University and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral SciencesSidney Tarrow Cornell University Charles Tilly Columbia University

Ronald Aminzade et al., Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention

Dynamics of Contention

DOUG MCADAM
Stanford University

SIDNEY TARROW
Cornell University

CHARLES TILLY
Columbia University

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Contents

List of Figures and Tables Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part I: What’s the Problem? 1. 2. 3.
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