States, Parties, and Social Movements [Hardcover]

This book, first published in 2003, is about how social protest movements become involved with political parties and elections.Most books on social movements treat them as special episodes, apart from normal politics. This book is about how social protest movements become involved with political parties and elections. It reveals how movements really are a normal part of modern politics, shaping parties and elections and interests for everyone wanting to know how political parties and social movements actually operate.Most books on social movements treat them as special episodes, apart from normal politics. This book is about how social protest movements become involved with political parties and elections. It reveals how movements really are a normal part of modern politics, shaping parties and elections and interests for everyone wanting to know how political parties and social movements actually operate.Most books on social movements treat them as special episodes, apart from normal politics. This book is about how social protest movements become involved with political parties and elections. It reveals how movements really are a normal part of modern politics, shaping parties and elections.Everyone wanting to know how political parties and social movements actually operate should read this book.Part I. States and Social Movements: 1. Countermovements, the state, and the intensity of racial contention in the American south Joseph Luders; 2. State vs. social movement: FBI counterintelligence against the new left David Cunningham; 3. Setting the state's agenda: church-based community organizations in American urban politics Heidi J. Swarts; 4. State pacts, elites, and social movements in Mexico's transition to democracy Jorge Cadena-Roa; Part II. Parties and Social Movements: 5. Parties out of movements: party emergence in post-communist Eastern Europe John K. Glenn; 6. From movement to party to government: why social policies in Kerala and West Bengal are so lÓ>