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1 online resource (305 pages) |
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Transforming American Politics |
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Transforming American politics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Beyond Ordinary Politics; Requisites of Democracy; Breakdown of Ordinary Politics; American Politics, Inside-Out; Dimensions of Extraordinary Politics and Ordinary Politics; Building on Extraordinary Politics; 2 Life Cycles of Protest; The Idea of Cycles; Long Cycles and the American Regime; The Family Tree; Organizational Cycles; Riding the Cycles; 3 Spurs and Limits to Action; Crisis and Mobilization; Material Interests; Relative Deprivation Theory; The Free Rider Problem |
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Moral Causes of Political ActionStatus and Culture; Psychological Spurs to Action; Socioeconomic Factors; From Grievances to Actions; 4 Organization Matters; The New Institutionalism; Kinds of Structure; Factors Shaping Form; Organizational Maintenance; Leadership; Structuring Protest; 5 Dimensions of Strategy; The Four Dimensions; The Question of Violence; Reconsidering Strategy; 6 Tactics of Activists; Tactics; Making Tactics into Strategy: Birmingham; Putting It All Together; 7 Consequences of Dissent; From Protest to Policy; Minor Victories ... and Failure; Political Realignment |
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Protest and Cultural RevolutionPolitical Education; Extraordinary Politics and the Regime; 8 Beyond Extraordinary Politics; Legitimacy of the Regime; Reconstructing the Polity; Toward a New Political Community; Notes; About the Book and Author; Index |
| Summary |
"Political protest and social movementstheir history; their cyclical development; their organization, strategies, and tacticsconstitute what Charles Euchner calls extraordinary politics, an antidote to the breakdown of politics-as-usual and a necessary, if not sufficient, condition of democracy. Activists have set the pace on every conceivable issue, including the environment, gay rights, feminism, abortion, states rights, religion, and multiculturalism. The president and Congress can barely keep up, but extraordinary politics keeps evolving. With style and grace, the author weaves together hundreds of examples drawn from movements spanning the ideological spectrum to offer both a practical and intellectual guidebook to political activism in a reputedly apathetic age, embracing with abandon the art of making a difference. }When dissidents and activists toppled powerful regimes across the globe in the 1980s and 1990sfrom the Soviet Union to South Africa, from Nicaragua to the Philippineshow did Americans respond to challenges in their own country? The conventional wisdom is that Americans sullenly withdrew from all manner of political action. But in fact, activists of all backgrounds took to the streets to challenge ordinary structures of politics. These movementstheir history; their cyclical development; their organization, strategies, and tacticsconstitute what the author calls extraordinary politics. Activists have set the pace on every conceivable issue, including the environment, gay rights, feminism, abortion, states rights, religion, and multiculturalism. The president and Congress can barely keep up, but extraordinary politics keeps evolving. With style and grace, Charles Euchner weaves together hundreds of examples drawn from movements spanning the ideological spectrum to offer both a practical and intellectual guidebook to political activism in a reputedly apathetic age, embracing with abandon the art of making a difference. }"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Political participation -- United States
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Social movements -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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Political participation
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Social movements
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429969164 |
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0429969163 |
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9780429500619 |
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0429500610 |
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9780429991325 |
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0429991320 |
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