In The Art of Moral Protest, James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest—from
nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements—into a distinctive new understanding of …

Recent work on social movement recruitment emphasizes the importance of pre-existing
social networks and underestimates that of cognitive cultural messages, which are …

Focusing on the Attac movements in France and Germany, this book seeks to explain the
dramatic differences that exist between the individual and organisational levels of activism …

The study of interest groups and their role in political life has undergone somewhat of a
renaissance in recent years. Long standing scholarly themes, such as interest-groups …

Sociologists have described the characteristics of individuals who become involved in social
movements, their motivations for becoming involved, and the methods used to recruit …

בעשור האחרון מתפתח בישראל עניין ציבורי במגוון של נושאים הקשורים לאדם, לזכויותיו, להעדפותיו, לזהותו,
לגופו ולאיכות סביבתו (בעיקר האקולוגית). נושאים אלה נהפכים בהדרגה לחלק מהשיח הציבורי, ביטוי רב ניתן …‎