States and Social Movements
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Since the late eighteenth century, politics, protest, and the statehave evolved together, each shaping the other in significant ways.This engaging and succinct treatment of protest stateinteraction shows how the modern national state developed in tandemwith social movement mobilization, arguing that to understand thestate fully, you cannot ignore the role of political protest.
Today, social movements are an integral part of politics: moderndemocratic states are, in reality, social movement societies, andprotest mobilization permeates how politics is regularlyaccomplished. States and Social Movements presents abalanced and comprehensive assessment of various theories of socialmovements, engaging both state-centered approaches, and culturaland agency-based perspectives. Hank Johnston takes a broad view, analyzing democratic transitions and revolutions, how protestoccurs in repressive states, and concluding with an exploration ofthe emerging repertoire of global social movements, where thesemovements come from, and if they spell the end of the modern stateas we know it.
States and Social Movements cuts to the core of how socialmovements interact with all types of state system to producevariable outcomes such as democracy, policy reform, repression, insurrection, and revolution. As such, it is essential reading forstudents and scholars of sociology and political science interestedin the important research area of contentious politics.
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