Explains the character of contemporary protest politics through a micro-mobilization analysis of participation in street demonstrations.

The Politics of Protest offers both a historical overview and an analytical framework for understanding social movements and political protest in American polit

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

Scholars consider ways in which the social movement has changed as a politics and how it changes the societies in which it occurs. This volume contains revealin