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Movements and Parties
Critical Connections in American Political Development

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Part of Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics

Author: Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University, New York

Date Published: August 2021
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781316515556

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How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are they more radically transformative? Examining major episodes of contention in American politics – from the Civil War era to the women's rights and civil rights movements to the Tea Party and Trumpism today – Sidney Tarrow tackles these questions and provides a new account of how the interactions between movements and parties have been transformed over the course of American history. He shows that the relationships between movements and parties have been central to American democratization – at times expanding it and at times threatening its future. Today, movement politics have become more widespread as the parties have become weaker. The future of American democracy hangs in the balance.
- Offers a new account of how the interactions between social movements and parties have been transformed over the course of American history
- Examines how these interactions have affected the character and resilience of American democracy
- Sheds new light on critical episodes in American politics from the Civil War era to the present day
- Tracks historical changes in the relative strength of movements and parties and shows that movement politics have become more widespread as the parties have become weaker
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‘In this trailblazing synthesis, one of the great scholars of ‘contentious politics’ sweeps across American history to unpack the complex interactions of political movements and political parties. Tarrow uncovers relationships that are highly variable, always fraught, and quite likely to determine the future course of American democracy. His assessment of how these engagements have changed over time offers a powerful, sobering commentary on the current critical juncture in American political development.’ Stephen Skowronek, Yale University, Connecticut
‘Parties and voters connected by a verb: engage, mobilize, turn out, suppress. In the place of this conventional approach to electoral politics, Sid Tarrow provides a sweeping historical account of how social movements have challenged and disrupted the American party system. Organized outside the party system, citizens and activists demand change, organize voters, and displace established strategies with innovative practices. Tarrow makes a compelling case for the consequential contentiousness of institutional politics. Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago
‘The shocking invasion of the capital last January 6th exposed the combustible confluence of movements and parties that currently disrupts politics in the United States. Movements and Parties, written by the foremost scholar of social movements, makes clear that the insurrection to overturn the 2020 presidential election, extraordinary as it was, drew on political forces that have long disrupted the nation. Masterfully integrating sophisticated theoretical insights and rich historical narrative, Sidney Tarrow illuminates the critical but under examined relationship between social activism and institutions – weaving a fascinating tale of insurgents and party leaders animating foundational struggles over American identity from the formative alliance between Republicans and abolitionists of the 1850s to the incursion of a ‘social movement society’ on contemporary party politics. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the role of movements and parties in the challenges that await American democracy.’ Sidney M. Milkis, University of Virginia
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- Date Published: August 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316515556
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 152 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.623kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Movements and Parties in Contentious Politics
Part I. The 'Party Period':
2. Mass Politics in the Civil War Crucible
3. The Agrarian Revolt, Populism, and the Gilded Age Party System
Part II. The Transitional Period:
4. Women, War, and the Vote
5. Labor and Civil Rights From the New Deal to the War on Poverty
Part III. Hollowing Parties in a Movement Society:
6. The Long New Right
7. The Hybridization of the Party System
Part IV. Contemporary Conjunctions:
8. Trumpism and the Movements He Made
9. Learning About America From Comparison.
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Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University, New York
Sidney Tarrow is Emeritus Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government at Cornell University and Adjunct Professor at the Cornell Law School. His recent books include Power in Movement, 3rd ed (2011), War, States, and Contention (2015), and The Resistance: The Dawn of the Anti-Trump Opposition Movement (co-edited with David S. Meyer, 2018).