Scholars of social movements and collective behavior recognize that political protest and
collective violence occur in waves and cycles. Nevertheless, work focusing on the dynamic …

This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding social movements as
interrelated sets of diffusion processes. It first explains why such a conception is broadly …

Using recent advances in event history diffusion modeling, this article reexamines the
diffusion of racial rioting in the United States from 1964–71, uncovering several important …

This paper re-evaluates a classic deterministic model of collective violence diffusion and
demonstrates a series of shortcomings in it. In response, a new model, the opposing forces …

This chapter discusses the insights yielded by studies examining inter‐and intra‐movement
diffusion, with an eye toward understanding what diffuses, through which channels, and the …

There is now a substantial literature on the diffusion of protest events, tactics, identities, and
frames between locations and among movements. This paper asks how the patterns …

The concept of diffusion is widely used by social scientists to refer to the spread of some
innovation through direct or indirect channels across members of a social system (Rogers …

Dawn Brancati and Adrián Lucardi offer a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom in
democratization research, which since Samuel Huntington's seminal analysis of The Third …

Social movements are not distinct and self-contained; rather, they grow from and give birth to
other movements, work in coalition with other movements, and influence each other …

There is an argument that nonviolent civil resistance or protest campaigns should be studied
as dynamic and complex phenomenon, rather than a single case comprised of various …