There has been rapid growth in the study of diffusion across organizations and social
movements in recent years, fueled by interest in institutional arguments and in network and …

Studying collective action with newspaper accounts of protest events, rare only 20 years
ago, has become commonplace in the past decade. A critical literature has accompanied the …

基于对一组邻避运动案例的实证研究, 分析中国环境抗争的扩散效应. 中国环境抗争的扩散效应
出现在不同邻避运动之间, 它们在运动剧目, 运动框架, 组织形式等方面表现出了高度的相似性 …

Antje Wiener examines the involvement of local actors in conflicts over global norms such as
fundamental rights and the prohibition of torture and sexual violence. Providing accounts of …

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more
than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By …

Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French
and American revolutions to the Arab Spring, and to ethnic and terrorist movements of today …

Despite the prevalence of nonviolent uprisings in recent history, no existing scholarship has
produced a generalized explanation of when and where such uprisings are most likely to …

In Challenging Codes Melucci brings an original perspective to research on collective action
which both emphasizes the role of culture and makes telling connections with the …

The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over the past three
decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become increasingly narrow and'movement …

Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, this 2003 book draws on a
major database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been …