Breaking Down the State: Protestors Engaged
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978-90-8964-759-7
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Contents
Introduction
Players and Arenas Formerly Known as the State
James M. Jasper
Part 1 – The Rules of Law
1 The Courts
Criminal Trials as Strategic Arenas
Brian Doherty and Graeme Hayes
2 Political Parties and Legislators
A Latin American Perspective
Hélène Combes
3 Political Parties and Legislators
An American Perspective
Katherine Krimmel
4 Contentious Governance
Local Governmental Players as Social Movement Actors
Imrat Verhoeven and Christian Broer
Part 2 – The Forces of Order
5 The Police
Donatella della Porta and Kıvanç Atak
6 The Military
The Mutual Determination of Strategy in Ireland, 1912-1921
Ian Roxborough
7 Infiltrators
David Cunningham and Roberto Soto-Carri0n
8 Liberal Violence
Strategies of Repression in Transitional Regimes
Vince Boudreau
Part 3 – International Arenas
9 The United Nations
Gay versus Anti-Gay Players in Transnational Contention
Clifford Bob
Conclusion
Simplicity vs. Complexity in the Analysis of Social Movements
Jack A. Goldstone
Contributors
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Figure 3.1 – Percentage of Bills Introduced in the US House Reported from Committee and Passed
Figure C1 – Tilly’s Polity Model, Static Version
Figure C2 – A More Complex View of Fields of Action for Social Movements
Table 2.1 – The Non-Partisan Engagements of National, Regional, and Local Leaders of the PRD between 1968 and 1997
Table 2.2 – Arenas and the Resource Transfers of Multi-Positioned Players
Table 5.1 – Styles of Policing, or “Interaction”
Table 5.2 – Protest Policing Strategies
Table 8.1 – Domination vs. Contestation
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