Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement (American Politics and Political Economy Series) - Softcover

Buch 6 von 8: American Politics and Political Economy

Chong, Dennis

 
9780226104416: Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226104419 ISBN 13: 9780226104416
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement is a theoretical study of the dynamics of public-spirited collective action as well as a substantial study of the American civil rights movement and the local and national politics that surrounded it. In this major historical application of rational choice theory to a social movement, Dennis Chong reexamines the problem of organizing collective action by focusing on the social, psychological, and moral incentives of political activism that are often neglected by rational choice theorists. Using game theoretic concepts as well as dynamic models, he explores how rational individuals decide to participate in social movements and how these individual decisions translate into collective outcomes. In addition to applying formal modeling to the puzzling and important social phenomenon of collective action, he offers persuasive insights into the political and psychological dynamics that provoke and sustain public activism. This remarkably accessible study demonstrates how the civil rights movement succeeded against difficult odds by mobilizing community resources, resisting powerful opposition, and winning concessions from the government.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dennis Chong is professor of political science at Northwestern University.


Dennis Chong is professor of political science at Northwestern University.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226104419
ISBN 13 
9780226104416
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
276
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