Political Translation

Nicole Doerr

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• At a time when the legitimacy of democracies is in question, calls to improve the quality of public debate and deliberative democracy are sweeping the... Lees meer

Sandinista Nicaragua's Resistance to Us Coercion

Héctor Perla Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• How was the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) of Nicaragua able to resist the Reagan Administration's coercive efforts to rollback their rev... Lees meer

Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests

Andrew Yeo

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• No other country maintains a global military presence comparable to the United States. Yet outside the United States, considerable debate exists about... Lees meer

Playing by the Informal Rules

Yao Li

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Growing protests in non-democratic countries are often seen as signals of regime decline. China, however, has remained stable amid surging protests. P... Lees meer

Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India

Rina Agarwala

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Since the 1980s, the world's governments have decreased state welfare and thus increased the number of unprotected "informal" or "precarious" workers.... Lees meer

Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India

Amrita Basu

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• This book is a pioneering study of when and why Hindu Nationalists have engaged in discrimination and violence against minorities in contemporary Indi... Lees meer

The Arab Spring Abroad

Dana M Moss

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• The Arab Spring revolutions of 2011 sent shockwaves across the globe, mobilizing diaspora communities to organize forcefully against authoritarian reg... Lees meer

The New Transnational Activism

Sidney Tarrow

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• From labor organizers to immigrant activists, from environmentalists to human rights campaigners, from global justice protesters to Islamic militants,... Lees meer

NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism

Tamara Kay

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• When NAFTA went into effect in 1994, many feared it would intensify animosity among North American unions, lead to the scapegoating of Mexican workers... Lees meer

The Civil Rights Movement and the Logic of Social Change

Joseph E Luders

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Social movements have wrought dramatic changes upon American society. This observation necessarily raises the question: Why do some movements succeed ... Lees meer

The Rise, Fall, and Influence of the Tea Party Insurgency

Patrick Rafail, John D McCarthy

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Emerging in 2009, the Tea Party movement had an immediate and profound impact on American politics and society. This book draws on a decade's worth of... Lees meer

Political Disaffection in Cuba's Revolution and Exodus

Silvia Pedraza

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• In this book, Silvia Pedraza links Cuba's revolution and its mass exodus not only as cause and consequence but also as profoundly social and human pro... Lees meer

Protectors of Pluralism

Robert Braun

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Protectors of Pluralism argues that local religious minorities are more likely to save persecuted groups from purification campaigns. Robert Braun uti... Lees meer

Mobilizing Without the Masses

Diana Fu

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating p... Lees meer

Putting Social Movements in Their Place

Doug McAdam, Hilary Boudet

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over the past three decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become increasingly n... Lees meer

The Political Power of Protest

Daniel Q Gillion

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• This book demonstrates the direct influence that political protest behavior has on Congress, the presidency, and the Supreme Court, illustrating that ... Lees meer

Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada

Barry Eidlin

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Why are unions weaker in the US than in Canada, two otherwise similar countries? This difference has shaped politics, policy, and levels of inequality... Lees meer

The Language of Contention

Sidney Tarrow

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• This book examines the relations between the material and political bases of contentious politics and the construction, diffusion, and endurance of co... Lees meer

Movements and Parties

Sidney Tarrow

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are th... Lees meer

Dictators and Their Secret Police

Sheena Chestnut Greitens

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• How do dictators stay in power? When, and how, do they use repression to do so? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive ap... Lees meer

Playing by the Informal Rules

Yao Li

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Growing protests in non-democratic countries are often seen as signals of regime decline. China, however, has remained stable amid surging protests. P... Lees meer

Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe

Sherrill Stroschein

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• In societies divided on ethnic and religious lines, problems of democracy are magnified - particularly where groups are mobilized into parties. With t... Lees meer

Networks in Contention

Jennifer Hadden

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• How do civil society organizations mobilize on climate change? Why do they choose certain strategies over others? What are the consequences of these c... Lees meer

Parties, Movements, and Democracy in the Developing World

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• This volume analyzes regime politics in the developing world. By focusing on the civilian, collective actors that forge democracy and sustain it, this... Lees meer