States, Parties, and Social Movements

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 different; 7. Parties, movements, and constituencies in categorizing race: state-level outcomes of multiracial category legislation Kim Williams; 8. Protest cycles and party politics: the effects of elite allies and antagonists on student protest in the United States, 1930¿90.