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Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in Four Democracies
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The authors compare cross-national comparisons of social movements with similar objectives or forms of mobilization in diverse settings, and present case studies of such movements, however, remain rare, although opportunities abound to observe movements having similar objectives.Abstract:
Since the 1960s, successive protest movements have challenged public policies, established modes of political participation and socio-economic institutions in advanced industrial democracies. Social scientists have responded by conducting case studies of such movements. Comparative analyses, particularly cross-national comparisons of social movements, however, remain rare, although opportunities abound to observe movements with similar objectives or forms of mobilization in diverse settings.read more
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Why would corporations behave in socially responsible ways? an institutional theory of corporate social responsibility
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an institutional theory of corporate social responsibility consisting of a series of propositions specifying the conditions under which corporations are likely to behave in socially responsible ways, and argue that the relationship between basic economic conditions and corporate behavior is mediated by several institutional conditions: public and private regulation, the presence of nongovernmental and other independent organizations that monitor corporate behaviour, institutionalized norms regarding appropriate corporate behavior, associative behavior among corporations themselves, and organized dialogues among corporations and their stakeholders.
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Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics
TL;DR: The history of contention in social movements can be traced to the birth of the modern social movement as discussed by the authors, and the dynamics of social movements have been studied in the context of contention.
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Collective identity and social movements
TL;DR: Collective identity has been treated as an alternative to structurally given interests in accounting for the claims on behalf of which people mobilize, an alternative alternative to selective incentives in understanding why people participate, a alternative to instrumental rationality in explaining what tactical choices activists make, and a complementary alternative to institutional reforms in assessing movements' impacts.
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Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward
Mai Bui,Claire S. Adjiman,André Bardow,Edward J. Anthony,Andy Boston,Solomon Brown,Paul S. Fennell,Sabine Fuss,Amparo Galindo,Leigh A. Hackett,Jason P. Hallett,Howard J. Herzog,George Jackson,Jasmin Kemper,Samuel Krevor,Geoffrey C. Maitland,Michael Matuszewski,Ian S. Metcalfe,Camille Petit,Graeme Puxty,Jeffrey A. Reimer,David Reiner,Edward S. Rubin,Stuart A. Scott,Nilay Shah,Berend Smit,Berend Smit,J. P. Martin Trusler,Paul A. Webley,Jennifer Wilcox,Niall Mac Dowell +30 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the current state-of-the-art of CO2 capture, transport, utilisation and storage from a multi-scale perspective, moving from the global to molecular scales.
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Ontologies, socio-technical transitions (to sustainability), and the multi-level perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss seven social science ontologies (rational choice, evolution theory, structuralism, interpretivism, functionalism, conflict and power struggle, relationism), their assumptions on agency and causal mechanisms, and their views on socio-technical transitions and environmental sustainability.
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Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory
John D. McCarthy,Mayer N. Zald +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a set of concepts and related propositions drawn from a resource mobilization perspective, emphasizing the variety and sources of resources; the relationship of social movements to the media, authorities, and other parties; and the interaction among movement organizations.
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From Mobilization to Revolution.
J. Craig Jenkins,Charles Tilly +1 more
TL;DR: The recent fallecimiento del sociólogo e historiador Charles Tilly (Lombard, Illinois, 1929-Bronx, Nueva York, 2008) puede servir de pretexto for rememorar una trayectoria investigadora sin duda excepcional, plasmada a lo largo de medio siglo en más de 600 artículos and 51 libros and monografías, that le convirtieron en el más influyente especialista
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From mobilization to revolution
TL;DR: In the offensive case, a group pools resources in response to opportunities to realize its interests as discussed by the authors, which is the most top-down form of mobilization, whereas in the preventive case, the group pool resources in anticipation of future opportunities and threats.
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Why men rebel
TL;DR: Gurr's Why Men Rebel remains highly relevant to today's violent and unstable world with its holistic, people-based understanding of the causes of political protest and rebellion as discussed by the authors.
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Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
TL;DR: McAdam as discussed by the authors presented a political process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States, focusing on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges, and Southern chapters of the NAACP.