Reflecting the importance of inequality for individuals' lives, the implications of labor market
inequality for core elements of democracy are crucial topics in comparative politics and …

Building on Karl Mannheim's theory of generations, this address argues that US Millennials
comprise a new political generation with lived experiences and worldviews that set them …

Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens
have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very …

Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political
movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A …

In recent years there has been an outpouring of work at the intersection of social movement
studies and organizational theory. While we are generally in sympathy with this work, we …

Contemporary large-scale land deals are widely understood as involving the expulsion of
people who, in turn, struggle instinctively to resist dispossession This is certainly true in …

Despite the centrality of meaning to institutionalization, little attention has been paid to how
meanings evolve and amplify to become institutionalized cultural conventions. We develop …

In this paper, we move beyond the typical focus on the role of individuals in leading social
change to examine “collective social entrepreneurship”, the role multiple actors …

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 …

Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American
democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make …