American South in the spring of 1960 transformed the struggle for racial equality. Sociological investigation began within months of the f irst protest (Laue [1966] 1989; Oppenheimer 1963; Searles and Williams 1962; Wehr 1960), and the sit-ins have become an exemplary case in the literature on social movements (Killian 1984; McAdam 1982, 1983; McAdam and Sewell 2001; Morris 1981, 1984; Oberscha...

In countries where citizens have strong grievances against the regime, attempts to address these grievances in the course of daily life are likely to entail high costs coupled with very low chances of success in any meaningful sense; consequently, most citizens will choose not to challenge the regime, thus reflecting the now well-known collective action problem. When a regime commits electoral ...

This study assesses the relationship between two well-established sets of frames to better understand news coverage massive political protests. By relying on Semetko and Valkenburg’s generic McLeod Hertog’s protest frames, this aims identify whether certain emphasized in stories increase tendency delegitimize movements. To end, we analyzed Chile’s Estallido Social, a series demonstrations that ...

Despite considerable theoretical work in social sciences, ready to use resources are very limited compared to digitally available mass media resources. Thus, this project creates a political protest database from online news resources in Brazil that will be used to explain Brazilian welfare state policy changes. In this paper we present the preliminary results of a system that automatically cra...

The article focuses on varying protest intensities of social movement activists in an authoritarian political environment. Drawing on a sample of participants in El Salvador’s El movimiento popular, the paper examines how structural location in the resistance movement’s multi-sectoral organizational infrastructure shapes the level of participation. Those motivated by state repression and mainta...

Over the past decade, the emergence of the `environmental protest' movement has created significant policing challenges for any force unfortunate enough to play `host' to a major road construction project. Once constructed, the Birmingham Northern Relief Road (BNRR) will be the United Kingdom's first `tolled motorway'. The scheme is hugely controversial because its environmental impact on 27 mi...