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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Political Opportunity"”.
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How progressives took advantage of moderate discontent: political opportunity, framing and mobilization at the local level
… a Progressive University City (PPUC) formed as a Political Action Committee (PAC) in a mid-sized community in order to influence the city commission and school board election of 2005. Resource Mobilization theory assumes that social movements form when they have access to resources including …
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Why Refugees Rebel: Militarization in Jordan and Worldwide
… from the host state, militancy entrepreneurs and political opportunity. This framework is applied to in-depth case studies of two refugee groups, Palestinians and Iraqis in Jordan. Why did Palestinians militarize from 1964 to 1970, but not earlier or later? Why have Iraqis not militarized despite …
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A Theoretical Critique of the Western Biases in the Political Process Theory of Social Movements
… of social movements in Third World countries. Political process theory, currently a dominant perspective on social movements, is the most promising starting point for such a research program; however, it has inherent Western biases, which severely limit its explanatory power for examining Third …
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Solidarity Sometimes: Globalization, Transnationalism, and the Labor Movement
… transnationalism: the shrinking of national political opportunity structures, the increasing availability of international political opportunity structures, and the adoption of a social union or social movement unionism paradigm for union revitalization. Additionally, I identify three factors …
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Civil society in Wales and European Union policy-making
… in European Union policy-making. A contextual political opportunity structure (POS) approach is employed to help understand the factors that shape this role. The thesis uses the European Convention as an empirical horizontal case study to compare the role of civil society in Wales in the …
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Islamist Party Mobilization: Tunisia’s Ennahda and Algeria’s HMS Compared, 1989-2014
… sections of the population, so that when the political opportunity presents itself, people are informed of their existence, goals, and representatives, and hence, primed to vote for them. The study adopts and expands the Political Process Theory, and adapts it to address North Africa, a region …
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Organizing for Freedom: The Angola Special Civics Project, 1987-1992
… Special Civics Project emerged during an era of political opportunity created by the coupling of political openings and contractions. Unlike outside advocates who focused their reform efforts on internal conditions, the Angola Special Civics Project centering of prisoners’ experiential knowledge …
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Raptivism: the Act of Hip Hop’s Counterpublic Sphere Forming into a Social Movement to Seize its Political Opportunities
… hop community to be recognized in the mainstream political sphere and to have its concerns acknowledged and addressed. This project examines how the scholarship of hip hop (musicology), rhetoric (counterpublic spheres), politics and social movement theory intertwine, and to demonstrate how hip …
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THE RETURN OF THE RADICAL RIGHT IN SPAIN
Despite the political pressure resulting from the surge of radical right-wing parties’ electoral success in the West—from the victories of President Donald Trump in the United States and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, to Matteo Salvini in Italy—Spain was, until recently, one of the few European …
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Contention under Consociationalism: The Selection of Strategies by Postethnic Protest Movements in Lebanon and Bosnia and Herzegovina
… particular, structure-oriented theories, such as Political Opportunity Structure (POS), often overlook the distinctive complexities of institutional engineering in consociations. On the other hand, agency-focused theories tend to inflate the autonomy of dissidents. As such, consociations offer a …
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New Media and Social Movements. How the Indigenous People of Biafra Movement Has Used the Internet to Mobilise for an Independent Biafran State
… macro-level analysis, which looked at the socio political and institutional environment; a meso-level, which examined the organisational infrastructure; and a micro-level exploring how the social movement made sense of their reality. The thesis addresses the debate between technology and society, …
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Varieties of base contestation: anti-U.S. base protests in South Korea and Japan
… in every corner of the world, the local political dynamics they generate remain surprisingly understudied. This project sheds light on different levels of local contestation confronting American military outposts overseas – a puzzle left unanswered by existing studies where prominent …
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Revisiting human responsibilities: prospects and challenges
… social movement literature on the international political opportunity structure to argue that the activities of opponents to human responsibilities initiatives, particularly their framing of human responsibilities as having the potential to undermine and weaken the international human rights …
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When Establishment and Social Movements Fail: Exploring the Populist Candidacies of the 2016 American Presidential Primaries
… of 2016, it had support in the credibility and political opportunity left by social movements past. And so to investigate this historic battle between the establishment and anti-establishment candidacies, we can look to what populism and social movements have in common, and how they merge during …
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The Foundations of Anti-System Protests in Democracy
… protests in democracy are a subcategory of political protests characterized by participants from diverse sectors or groups in society, wide-ranging demands, blame directed at the political system, and a context of representative democracy. This protest subtype raises a critical puzzle: why …
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The transformation of Israeli Peace Activism since the Second Intifada
… they interact with the external environment, the political opportunity structures, this dissertation identifies different cycles of contention for the three components of Israeli peace activism. The empirical analysis has also led to contributions in the field of social movement theory. It shows …
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Bringing the visual into focus: Street art and contentious politics in Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina
Politically committed street art has been mobilised time and again as a crucial strategy and means of expression. Yet, social movement scholars and political analysts have displayed a persistent tendency to overlook the specificities of visual tools and aesthetic experience in contentious politics. …
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Exceptionally un-American? why co-operative enterprises struggle in the United States, but scale elsewhere
… little is known about macro socioeconomic or political conditions for success. Do US worker, consumer and producer cooperatives frequently achieve economies of scale? If not, why? This study deploys regression techniques, comparative-historical analysis (CHA), and interview data to answer …
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Islamic Activism: The Socio-Political Dynamics of the Indonesian Forum of Islamic Society (FUI)
… employs the perspectives of social movements: political opportunity structure, mobilising structures, and framing. This thesis primarily argues that given differences in terms of ideologies and strategies on the part of Islamic movements and organisations in Indonesia, the emergence of FUI was …
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State, Dissidents, and Contention: Iran, 1979-2010
… Republic. While this study primarily utilizes political process and resource mobilization models, it acknowledges the importance of economic, ideological, and breakdown approaches for the interpretation of the emergence and development of popular mobilization in contemporary Iran. Drawing on …
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