Purpose Over the past few decades, universities have been recognized as ideal leaders for
the development of policies and innovative solutions required to support the transition to …

There has been considerable debate over the extent and role of young people's political
participation. Whether considering popular hand‐wringing over concerns about declines in …

For the first time in a single volume, leading social movement researchers map the full range
of applications of network concepts and tools to their field of inquiry. They illustrate how …

One Tuesday afternoon in November 2002, a group of 50 women of all ages from West
Marin, California, lay down naked in a light rain to spell out ''PEACE''with their bodies. A …

Abstract Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, and Queer (LGBTQ) centers are increasingly
prevalent on college and university campuses (see, eg, Marine, 2011). However, there …

The wave of sit-ins that swept through the American South in the spring of 1960 transformed
the struggle for racial equality. This episode is widely cited in the literature on social …

Public research universities were previously able to provide excellent education to white
families thanks to healthy government funding. However, that funding has all but dried up in …

Staging events with a large number of participants is a central means by which collective
action movements exercise power. Creating broad coalitions that cut across movement …

It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The
girls have been outside on the sidewalk all evening, seducing passersby into coming in for …

Social movement scholars have long been skeptical of culture's impact on political change,
perhaps for good reason, since little empirical research explicitly addresses this question …