Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] Protest and Opportunities - The Political
Outcomes of Social Movements
> > Kolb, Felix (2007): Protest and Opportunities. The Political
> Outcomes of Social
> Movements, 341 pp, 37,90 Euro, Campus-Verlag
>
> http://www.campus.de/isbn/9783593384139 >
> > > Synopsis
>
> 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 inability of research to explain systematically the impact of
> such movements
> stands in sharp contrast to their emotional appeal. Protest and
> Opportunities
> attempt to rejuvenate current scholarship by developing a
> comprehensive theory
> of social movements and political change. In addition to reviewing
> the existing
> literature on the political outcomes of social movements, this
> volume analyzes
> the examples of the American civil rights movement and anti-nuclear
> energy
> efforts in eighteen countries to forge a new understanding of their
> momentous
> impact.
>
