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Strategic Alliances : Coalition Building and Social Movements /

Social researchers in the past have paid surprisingly little theoretical or empirical attention to movement alliances. Strategic Alliances provides a pioneering set of in-depth analyses of the circumstances leading to these organizational alliances. Contributors investigate coalition dynamics among...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: McCammon, Holly J., 1959- (Editor), Van Dyke, Nella (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The prehistory of a coalition : the role of social ties in win without war / Catherine Corrigall-Brown and David S. Meyer
  • Policing capital : armed countermovement coalitions against labor in late nineteenth-century industrial cities / Larry Isaac
  • Interstate dynamics and transnational social movement coalitions : a comparison of northeast and southeast Asia / Dawn Wiest
  • Approaching merger : the converging public policy agendas of the AFL and CIO, 1938/1955 / Daniel B. Cornfield and Holly J. McCammon
  • "Organizing one's own" as good politics : second wave feminists and the meaning of coalition / Benita Roth
  • The strength of weak coalitions : transregional feminist coalitions in Eastern Germany / Katja M. Guenther
  • Organizing across ethnic boundaries in the post/civil rights era : Asian American panethnic coalitions / Dina G. Okamoto
  • Social movement partyism : collective action and oppositional political parties in Latin America / Paul Almeida
  • Political opportunity and social movement coalitions : the role of policy segmentation and nonprofit tax law / Brian Obach
  • Sustained interactions? : social movements and coalitions in local settings / Mario Diani, Isobel Lindsay, and Derrick Purdue
  • Crisis as a catalyst for cooperation? : women's organizing in Buenos Aires / Elizabeth Borland
  • Sudden mobilization : movement crossovers, threats, and the surprising rise of the U.S. antiwar movement / Ellen Reese, Christine Petit, and David S. Meyer
  • Applying qualitative comparative analysis to empirical studies of social movement coalition formation / Holly J. McCammon and Nella Van Dyke
  • Conclusion : research on social movement coalitions / Suzanne Staggenborg.