Breaking Down the State: Protestors Engaged
Jan Willem Duyvendak
Breaking Down the State: Protestors Engaged
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In this important book, Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper bring together an internationally acclaimed group of contributors to demonstrate the complexities of the social and political spheres in various areas of public policy. By breaking down the state into the players who really make decisions and pursue coherent strategies, these essays provide new perspectives on the interactions between political protestors and the many parts of the state—from courts, political parties, and legislators to police, armies, and intelligence services. By analyzing politics as the interplay of various players within structured arenas, Breaking Down the State provides an innovative look at law and order versus opposition movements in countries across the globe.

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English
ISBN
978-90-8964-759-7
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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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