Breaking Down the State: Protestors Engaged.

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Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press 2015.
Description:	1 online resource (246.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Protest movements. Social movements. State, The. Political participation. Order. Political sociology. Political science. Orderliness. Orderliness. Order. Political participation. Political science. Political sociology. Protest movements. Social movements. State, The.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13479502

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ISBN:	9789089647597 9089647597
Notes:	English.
Summary:	In this important book, Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper bring together an internationally acclaimed group of contributors to demonstrate the complexities of the social and political spheres in various areas of public policy. By breaking down the state into the players who really make decisions and pursue coherent strategies, these essays provide new perspectives on the interactions between political protestors and the many parts of the state?from courts, political parties, and legislators to police, armies, and intelligence services. By analyzing politics as the interplay of various players within structured arenas, Breaking Down the State provides an innovative look at law and order versus opposition movements in countries across the globe.
Standard no.:	10.5117/9789089647597

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Players and Arenas Formerly Known as the State
Part 1. The Rules of Law
1. The Courts: Criminal Trials as Strategic Arenas
2. Political Parties and Legislators: A Latin American Perspective
3. Political Parties and Legislators: An American Perspective
4. Contentious Governance: Local Governmental Players as Social Movement Actors
Part 2. The Forces of Order
5. The Police
6. The Military: The Mutual Determination of Strategy in Ireland, 1912-1921
7. Infiltrators
8. Liberal Violence: Strategies of Repression in Transitional Regimes
Part 3. International Arenas
9. The United Nations: Gay versus Anti-Gay Players in Transnational Contention
Conclusion: Simplicity vs. Complexity in the Analysis of Social Movements
Contributors
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Figure 3.1. Percentage of Bills Introduced in the US House Reported from Committee and Passed
Figure C1. Tilly's Polity Model, Static Version
Figure C2. A More Complex View of Fields of Action for Social Movements
Table 2.1. The Non-Partisan Engagements of National, Regional, and Local Leaders of the PRD between 1968 and 1997
Table 2.2. Arenas and the Resource Transfers of Multi-Positioned Players
Table 5.1. Styles of Policing, or "Interaction"
Table 5.2. Protest Policing Strategies
Table 8.1. Domination vs. Contestation

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