Collective Action Theory and Empirical Evidence
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 America
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Ronald A. Francisco
Collective Action Theory and Empirical Evidence
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Ronald A. Francisco University of Kansas Dept. Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane Lawrence KS 66044 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-1475-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1476-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1476-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010920999 c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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Acknowledgments
This project has been underway for some time. Through the course of the work, a number of people and institutions have helped me. Let us start with institutions. The data set we coded from the grant of the National Science Foundation (SBR9631229) is a major component of the underlying evidence in the book. In addition to NSF support, the Department of Political Science and the General Research Fund at the University of Kansas have been important contributors to the completion of the data project. I thank also people who have aided me in this work. Paul Johnson has been stalwart in the methodology and computer work. He is also an expert in collective action theory. I have learned a lot from Paul. Kathy Graves, head of the reference collection in the University of Kansas libraries, helped me to research many of the historical and cultural events included in the volume. Christian Davenport, now at the University of Notre Dame, aided me greatly on the subject of the Black Panthers. Most of all, I appreciate the support and active assistance of my wife Deborah, who has helped this project along and has been a wonderful companion for four decades.
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List of Acronyms
AARP CARP ETA GSC-9 LTTE M-19 NAACP NSF PIRA PKK RAID SAS SDS SPD STV SWAT UFF UVF
American Association for Retired People Collective Action Research Program Easkadi Tu Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Freedom) Grenzschutzgruppe-9 (Border Protection Group 9) Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Sri Lanka) Cuban 19th of April Revolutionary Movement National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Science Foundation Provisional Irish Republican Army Partiya Karkerˆen Kurdistan (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion (French anti-terror Research, Assistance, In
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