Joseph E. Luders

The Civil Rights Movement and the Logic of Social Change

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the success and failure of social movements to bring about change in American society, focusing on the targets of protests to explain diverse outcomes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780521133395
• ISBN-10: 0521133394
• Artikelnr.: 26572335

Autorenporträt

Joseph Luders is Gottesman Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yeshiva University. His research focuses on social movements, civil rights politics and policy, and American political development.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The logic of social movement outcomes
2. Civil rights and reactive countermobilization
3. The calculus of compromise
4. Local struggles
5. Patterns of regional change
6. Federal responses to civil rights mobilization
7. Conclusion.