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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784106703321

Titolo

Repression and mobilization [[electronic resource] /] / Christian Davenport, Hank Johnston, and Carol Mueller, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8166-9641-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Social movements, protest, and contention ; ; v. 21

Classificazione

89.62

Altri autori (Persone)

DavenportChristian <1965->

JohnstonHank <1947->

MuellerCarol McClurg

Disciplina

303.48/4

Soggetti

Protest movements

Government, Resistance to

Political persecution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: repression and mobilization : insights from political science and sociology / Christian Davenport -- Protest mobilization, protest repression, and their interaction / Clark McPhail and John D. McCarthy -- Precarious regimes and matchup problems in the explanation of repressive policy / Vince Boudreau -- The dictator's dilemma / Ronald A. Francisco -- When activists ask for trouble : state-dissident interactions and the New Left cycle of resistance in the United States and Japan / Gilda Zwerman and Patricia Steinhoff -- Talking the walk : speech acts and resistance in authoritarian regimes / Hank Johnston -- Soft repression : ridicule, stigma, and silencing in gender-based movements / Myra Marx Ferree -- Repression and the public sphere : discursive opportunities for repression against the extreme right in Germany in the 1990s / Ruud Koopmans -- On the quantification of horror : notes from the field / Patrick Ball -- Repression, mobilization, and explanation / Charles Tilly -- How to organize your mechanisms : research programs, stylized facts, and historical narratives / Mark Lichbach.

Sommario/riassunto

With case studies that range from Germany to the Philippines, the United States to Japan, Guatemala to China, these essays synthesize



what we know about repression and mobilization and provide thoughtful insight for the future.