num_pages: 271
description: Unlike political or economic institutions, social movements have an elusive power, but one that is no less real. This study surveys the history of the social movement, puts forward a theory of collective action to explain its surges and declines, and offers an interpretation of the power of movement that emphasizes its effects on personal lives, policy reforms and political culture. While covering cultural, organizational and personal sources of movements' power, the book emphasizes the rise and fall of social movements as part of political struggle and as the outcome of changes in political opportunity structure. This second edition has an entirely new chapter, major additions to the bibliography, new illustrative materials in many of the chapters and a new conclusion.
language: English
title: Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics
titlecomplete: Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
genres: Social Science, Social Movements, History, Sociology, Grad School, Activism, Academic, Nonfiction, Political Science, Politics
ratings_count: 267
series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: APSA Luebbert Best Book Award
category: Honorable Mention
publisher: Cambridge University Press