Third-generation theories of revolution pointed to the structural vulnerabilities of regimes as
the basic causes of revolutions. In the last decade, critics of structural theories have argued …

El estudio del papel de las emociones en la protesta y los movimientos sociales desde su
inicio en los años noventa del siglo XX ha ido consolidándose y enriqueciendo la …

All three of the traditionally recognized new institutionalisms–rational choice, historical, and
sociological–have increasingly sought to 'endogenize'change, which has often meant a turn …

Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the
current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action …

This article explores how social media acted as a catalyst for protest mobilization during the
Tunisian revolution in late 2010 and early 2011. Using evidence from protests we argue that …

Why do two cognate literatures—social movements and electoral studies—travel along
parallel paths with little conversation between them? And what can be done to connect them …

The question of how space matters to the mobilisation, practices and trajectories of
contentious politics has frequently been represented as a politics of scale. Others have …

This book offers an innovative perspective on the ever-widening gap between the poor and
the state in Latin American politics. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the main social …

This article maps out the field of study known as discursive institutionalism while exploring
the range of ways in which scholars in this field explain the dynamics of change (and …

The Social Science Encyclopedia, first published in 1985 to acclaim from social scientists,
librarians and students, was thoroughly revised in 1996, when reviewers began to describe …