A growing body of scholarship acknowledges the increasing influence of global forces on
social institutions and societies on multiple scales. We focus here on the role of globalization …

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 …

Populism is usually treated as an exclusively top-down affair where political party leaders
mobilize diverse constituencies to reap electoral benefits. This perspective discounts a rich …

The literature on the interplay of social movements and political parties is growing as
sociologists regain interest in political parties and political scientists pay closer attention to …

Between 2013 and 2016, a broad range of Catholic groups following pro-life and pro-family
agendas has conducted a large anti-gender campaign, whose main result was the definition …

In 2011, Chilean students mobilized in the largest demonstrations since the country's return
to democracy. Students in some other Latin American countries have also carried out mass …

Study of social movement coalitions receives growing attention from movement scholars.
This chapter reviews the literature on collaborative collective action. After providing a …

This chapter introduces the case of the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the
Occident (PEGIDA), describing the history, ideology, activists, supporters, and diffusion of …

In the early decades of the twenty-first century, an international movement to slow the pace
of climate change mushroomed across the globe. The self-proclaimed Climate Justice …

At times, radicalized rightwing movements may influence political institutions to the point of
weakening core democratic practices and promoting the tools of autocrats. We advance a …