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How social movements matter

Author: Marco Giugni; Doug McAdam; Charles Tilly
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn : University of Minnesota Press, ©1999.
Series: Social movements, protest, and contention, v. 10.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Bringing together several well-known scholars, this volume offers an assessment of the consequences of social movements in Western countries. Policy, institutional, cultural, short- and long-term, and intended and unintended outcomes are among the types of consequences the authors consider in depth. They also compare political outcomes of several contemporary movements -- specifically, women's, peace, ecology, and  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marco Giugni; Doug McAdam; Charles Tilly
ISBN: 0816629145 9780816629145 0816629153 9780816629152
OCLC Number: 40753989
Description: xxxiii, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: How social movements matter : past research, present problems, future developments / Marco Giugni --
Social movements and public policy / Paul Burstein --
Making an impact : conceptual and methodological implications of the collective goods criterion / Edwin Amenta and Michael P. Young --
The impact of social movements on political institutions : a comparison of the introduction of direct legislation in Switzerland and the United States / Hanspeter Kriesi and Dominique Wisler --
Protest, protesters and protest policing : public discourses in Italy and Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s / Donatella della Porta --
Political protest and institutional change : the anti-Vietnam war movement and American science / Kelly Moore --
The biographical impact of activism / Doug McAdam --
Feminist politics in a hostile environment : obstacles and opportunities / Joyce Gelb and Vivien Hart --
How the Cold War was really won : the effects of the antinuclear movements of the 1980s / David S. Meyer --
The impact of environmental movements in western societies / Dieter Rucht --
Ethnic and civic conceptions of nationhood and th differential success of the extreme right in Germany and Italy / Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham --
From interactions to outcomes in social movements / Charles Tilly.
Series Title: Social movements, protest, and contention, v. 10.
Responsibility: Marco Giugni, Doug McAdam, and Charles Tilly, editors ; foreword by Sidney Tarrow.

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"Bringing together several well-known scholars, this volume offers an assessment of the consequences of social movements in Western countries. Policy, institutional, cultural, short- and long-term, and intended and unintended outcomes are among the types of consequences the authors consider in depth. They also compare political outcomes of several contemporary movements -- specifically, women's, peace, ecology, and extreme right-wing movements -- in different countries. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

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