Collective Action Theory and Empirical Evidence

• Main Author: Francisco, Ronald A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Political science.; Game theory.; Sociology.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Sociology, general.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

This book comprises empirical tests of the theoretical implications of collective action theory specifically with regard to mobilization. It is based on the author’s European Protest and Coercion Data, which won the Comparative Politics Section of American Political Science Association award for the...

Table of Contents:

• Testing Collective Action Theory
• Leadership and Mobilization
• Tactical Adaptation and Symbolic Protest
• Dimensions of Space and Time in Protest and Repression
• Terror
• Evidence for Collective Action Theory.