Social movements play a vital and increasingly visible role in modern politics. Headline-grabbing demonstrations against authoritarian governments, police bruta

Explains the character of contemporary protest politics through a micro-mobilization analysis of participation in street demonstrations.

Protest Politics in the Marketplace examines how social media has revolutionized the use and effectiveness of consumer activism. In her groundbreaking book, Car

Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged

The Politics of Protest offers both a historical overview and an analytical framework for understanding social movements and political protest in American polit