The study set out to integrate collective action models and emphasize the role of emotions.
Whereas the importance of anger is indisputable, relatively little attention has been paid to …

What are protest politics and social movement activism today? What are their main features?
To what extent can street citizens be seen as a force driving social and political change …

This chapter is devoted to the mechanisms of engagement and disengagement in collective
action as they are currently conceived in social and political psychology. Dynamics of …

Notwithstanding their relevance to the development of collective identities, as well as for the
image and narrative of contentio Page 1 Notwithstanding their relevance to the development of …

This article presents the theoretical underpinnings, design, methods, and measures of the
project, Caught in the Act of Protest: Contextualizing Contestation. This effort examines …

Collective action literature tends to focus on how people are affiliated to mobilizing
structures and on how being affiliated to these networks facilitates collective action …

Activists are the engines of social movements. What spurs their activism? This article
scrutinizes the role of civic participation in stimulating political action. We examine how the …

In this article, we focus on two demonstrations against climate change that took place in
Portugal on the 12th of November 2016 and the 29th of April 2017. Two separate studies …

This article argues that the agenda-setting power of protest must be understood in dynamic
terms. Specifically, it develops and tests a dynamic theory of media reaction to protest which …

Who goes to protests? To answer this question, existing research has relied either on
retrospective surveys of populations or in-protest surveys of participants. Both techniques …