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288 pp.
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ISBN-13:
9780199937134

Copyright Year:
2014

Imprint: OUP US

Politics of Protest

Second Edition

David Meyer

The Politics of Protest offers both a historical overview and an analytical framework for understanding social movements and political protest in American politics. Meyer shows that protest movements, an integral part of our nation's history from the Boston Tea Party to the Civil Rights Movement, are hardly confined to the distant past. He argues that protest movements in America reflect and influence mainstream politics and that in order to understand our political system - and our social and political world - we need to pay attention to protest.

The Politics of Protest opens with a short history of social movements in the United States, beginning with the development of the American Republic and outlining how the American constitutional design invites protest movements to offer continual challenges. It then discusses the social impulse to protest, considers the strategies and tactics of social movements, looks at the institutional response to protest, and finally examines the policy ramifications. Each chapter includes a brief narrative of a key movement that illustrates the topic covered in that chapter.

Readership : Suitable for undergraduate students in the Social Movements course.

Preface
Introduction
1. America and Political Protest: Political Institutions and Dissent
2. Why Protest? The Origins of Movements, Opportunities, and Organizations
3. Becoming an Activist
4. Individuals, Movements, Organizations, and Coalitions
5. The Strategy and Tactics of Social Protest
6. Protest and Communication: New and Old Media
7. Civil Disobedience
8. The State and Protests: Institutionalization
9. When Everyone Protests
10. The Policy Connection: How Movements Matter
11. Protest and American Politics: What's Next?
References
Index

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David S. Meyer is Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Planning, Policy, and Design at the University of California, Irvine.

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Special Features

Fluid and engaging writing style.
Accessible to undergraduates interested in social movements without prior theoretical traning in the field.
Links protest, social movements, and conventional politics.

New to this Edition

A new chapter on media and movements (Chapter 6: Protest and Communication: New and Old Media) that examines how media has changed in the past two decades, focusing in particular on online activism
New discussions on such topics as the election of a black president, the emergence of the Tea Party movement, and the intensifying conflict regarding immigration policy
More material on the successes of the gay and lesbian movement in promoting policy changes to marriage at the state level and in national military service