Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements
Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings

Table of Contents

Introduction: opportunities mobilizing structures and framing processes Doug McAdam
Part I. Political Opportunities:
1. Clarifying the concept of political opportunities Doug McAdam
2. States and opportunities: the political structuring of social movements Sidney Tarrow
3. Social movements and the state: thoughts on the policing of protest Donatella della Porta
4. Opportunities and framing in the East European revolts of 1989 Anthony Oberschall
5. Opportunities and Framing in the Political Cycle of Perestroika Elena Zdravomyslova
Part II. Mobilizing Structures:
6. Mobilizing structures: constraints and opportunities in adopting, adapting and inventing John D. McCarthy
7. The organizational structure of new social movements in relation to their political context Hanspeter Kriesi
8. The impact of national contexts on social movement structures: a cross-movement and cross-national comparison Dieter Rucht
9. Organizational form as frame: collective identity and political strategy in the American Labor Movement 1880–1920 Elisabeth S. Clemens
10. The collapse of a social movement: the interplay of mobilizing structures, framing, and political opportunities in the Knights of Labor Kim Voss
Part III. Framing Processes:
11. Culture ideology and strategic framing Mayer N. Zald
12. Accessing public media electoral and governmental agendas John D. McCarthy, Jackie Smith, and Mayer N. Zald
13. Media discourse, movement publicity, and the generation of collective action frames: theoretical and empirical exercises in meaning construction Bert Klandermans and Sjoerd Goslinga
14. Framing political opportunity William A. Gamson and David S. Meyer
15. The framing function of movement tactics: strategic dramaturgy in the American civil rights movement Doug McAdam.

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