Participation in social movements is a multifaceted phenomenon. Indeed, there are many
different forms of movement participation. Two important dimensions to distinguish forms of …

This paper presents a model of the mobilization of people into movements that is compatible
with a resource mobilization perspective on social movement organizations as the unit of …

Four aspects of mobilization are distinguished: formation of mobilization potentials,
formation and activation of recruitment networks, arousal of motivation to participate, and …

In this chapter I will take stock of what we have learned so far about participation in collective
political action. Compared to three or four decades ago--when the systematic empirical …

This article attempts to draft a framework for the comparison of movement participation. The
standards of comparison I developed at the movement level were the magnitude of …

This paper seeks to explain differential participation in social movements. It does so by
attempting to bridge structural-level and individual-level explanations. We test a number of …

This chapter is an update of our 2007 chapter Individuals in movements: a social psychology
of contention. In that chapter we described fundamental social psychological …

Social movement organizations face the challenge of converting action preparedness into
action participation, and accordingly, they must deal with factors that lead to …

This chapter is devoted to the mechanisms of engagement and disengagement in collective
action as they are currently conceived in social and political psychology. Dynamics of …

The emphasis in the social‐psychological collective action literature is on why individuals
take part in collective action; however, it does not elaborate on how different mobilizing …