Contentious Episodes In The Age Of Austerity

Provides researchers with a novel methodological tool to study interactions between governments, challengers, and third-party actors.

An ethnographic study of how people in one of Latin America's most notorious social movements became long-term activists.

"The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation provides readers with up-to-date knowledge on the wide-ranging topics covered in this field and considers the key theoretical and methodological pluralism in the area as well the most recent developments. One of the aims of this Handbook is to bring together two research traditions from political science and sociology, bridging research in political sociology and social movement studies. Accordingly, the Handbook mainly brings together authors coming from both the politics and sociology research traditions, as well as key authors working on political participation coming also from other fields such as psychology, economics, anthropology, and geography. The volume provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of political participation in all of its varied expression; it covers a wide range of topics relating to the study of political participation, both from a theoretical and methodological perspective; it brings together the political science and political sociology tradition, on the one hand, and the social movement sociological tradition, on the other; it is sensitive to theoretical and methodological pluralism as well as the most recent developments in the field; and includes discussions combining perspectives that have traditionally been treated separately in the literature as well as discussions of current trends and future directions for research in this field"--

The Advantage of Disadvantage provides insights for scholars and activists into how marginalized groups gain representation through protest. Drawing on formal theory, surveys, and quantitative data, the book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of representation, inequality, and digital activism.

Asks why some dissident movements adopt nonviolent strategies of resistance, while others choose to take up arms.

Using original fieldwork, Violent Resistance explains when, where, and how communities form militias to defend themselves in civil wars.

Uses extensive evidence to examine the Tea Party and its impacts from its infancy, through to its decline.