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Author Opp, Karl-Dieter

Title The Rationality of Political Protest : a Comparative Analysis of Rational Choice Theory
Published Milton : Routledge, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Political Protest and Rational Choice Theory; 2.1. The Rational Choice Model; 2.2. The Rational Choice Model Under Attack; 2.3. Testing the Rational Choice Model by Survey Research; 2.4. The Rational Choice Model and Competing Hypotheses About Political Protest; Notes; 3 Research Design; 3.1. The Data; 3.2. The Construction of Political Protest Scales; Notes; 4 Rational Choice Models of Political Protest; 4.1. A Public Goods Theory of Political Protest
4.2. Selective Incentives4.3. Recursive Models; 4.4. Nonrecursive Models; 4.5. Summary and Conclusions; Notes; 5 Social Integration and Political Protest; 5.1. The General Model: Linking Rational Choice Variables, Integration, and Political Protest; 5.2. Hypotheses; 5.3. The Procedure for Testing the Hypotheses; 5.4. Integration into Voluntary Associations: An Analysis of the Hamburg Data; 5.5. Integration into Voluntary Associations: An Analysis of the New York City Data; 5.6. Integration into Voluntary Associations: An Analysis of the German Study; 5.7. Community Integration
5.8. Community Integration: An Analysis of the New York City Data5.9. Community Integration: An Analysis of the Hamburg Data; 5.10 Multivariate Models; 5.11. Summary and Conclusions; Notes; 6 Relative Deprivation and Political Protest; 6.1. The Concept and Theory of Relative Deprivation; 6.2. Measurement of Relative Deprivation; 6.3. Results; 6.4. Summary and Conclusions; Notes; 7 Demographic Variables and Political Protest; 7.1. Protest and Variables of the Life Cycle; 7.2. Protest and Social Class; 7.3. Protest and Gender; 7.4. Protest and Religion; 7.5. A Multivariate Demographic Model
7.6. Demographic Characteristics and Incentives for Protest7.7. Explaining the Relationships Between Demographic Variables and Protest; 7.8. Summary and Conclusions; Notes; 8 Explaining the Perceived Influence on Providing Public Goods; 8.1. Hypotheses; 8.2. Measurement of the Variables; 8.3. Results; 8.4. Summary and Conclusions; Notes; 9 Synopsis and General Conclusions; Appendix: Measurement of the Variables; Scale Construction; Treatment of Missing Values; Measurement of the Dependent Variables: Legal and Illegal Protest; Measurement of the Rational Choice Variables
Summary Of the Variables and Some Descriptive StatisticsNotes; Bibliography; Index
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ISBN 9781000233186
1000233189