Explains the character of contemporary protest politics through a micro-mobilization analysis of participation in street demonstrations.

This lively textbook integrates theory and methodology and includes contemporary examples, case studies and debates to encourage critical engagement.

Although grass-roots social movements are an important force of social and political change, they quite often fail to achieve their lofty goals. Similarly, the

The Politics of Protest offers both a historical overview and an analytical framework for understanding social movements and political protest in American polit

Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory