Description
Book SynopsisThe best current thinking on the conditions leading to successful activist coalitions.
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Introduction: Social Movement Coalition Formation
Nella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammon
Part I. Social Ties and the Development of Movement Coalitions
1. The Prehistory of a Coalition: The Role of Social Ties in Win Without War
Catherine Corrigall-Brown and David S. Meyer
2. Policing Capital: Armed Countermovement Coalitions against Labor in Late Nineteenth-Century Industrial Cities
Larry Isaac
3. Interstate Dynamics and Transnational Social Movement Coalitions: A Comparison of Northeast and Southeast Asia
Dawn Wiest
Part II. Movement Ideology and Coalition Formation
4. Approaching Merger: The Converging Public Policy Agendas of the AFL and CIO, 1938-1955
Daniel B. Cornfield and Holly J. McCammon
5. "Organizing One's Own" as Good Politics: Second Wave Feminists and the Meaning of Coalition
Benita Roth
6. The Strength of Weak Coalitions: Transregional Feminist Coalitions in Eastern Germany
Katja M. Guenther
Part III. Broad Political Influences on Social Movement Coalitions
7. Organizing across Ethnic Boundaries in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Asian American Panethnic Coalitions
Dina G. Okamoto
8. Social Movement Partyism: Collective Action and Oppositional Political Parties in Latin America
Paul Almeida
9. Political Opportunity and Social Movement Coalitions: The Role of Policy Segmentation and Nonprofit Tax Law
Brian Obach
10. Sustained Interactions? Social Movements and Coalitions in Local Settings
Mario Diani, Isobel Lindsay, and Derrick Purdue
Part IV. Coalitions and Combinations of Causal Factors
11. Crisis as a Catalyst for Cooperation? Women's Organizing in Buenos Aires
Elizabeth Borland
12. Sudden Mobilization: Movement Crossovers, Threats, and the Surprising Rise of the U.S. Antiwar Movement
Ellen Reese, Christine Petit, and David S. Meyer
13. Applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Empirical Studies of Social Movement Coalition Formation
Holly J. McCammon and Nella Van Dyke
Conclusion: Research on Social Movement Coalitions
Suzanne Staggenborg
Contributors
Index
