Abstract Recent work on social movement fields has expanded our view of the dynamics movements; it should also expand thinking about success. Such a broader reveals paradox: movements often snatch defeat from jaws victory by narrowly targeting authorities with their actions instead field. Negative impacts wider field can then reverse or overshadow initial victories. We distinguish between movem...

Does propaganda reduce the probability of popular protest in Africa’s contemporary autocracies? To answer this question, we draw on an original dataset of state-run newspapers from 21 African countries, encompassing two languages and roughly 600,000 articles. We find that propaganda diminishes the probability of protest, and that its effects persist over time. By increasing the level of pro-reg...

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This study draws from the broad range of cross-disciplinary theories examining digitally networked action (DNA) to offer a rhetorical topology that traces repeated patterns communication and digital actions marking formation maintenance protest counterpublics. Grounded in concepts collective identity building network theory, characteristics tactics scholars have uncovered over past 10 years wer...

The growth of social inequality in recent decades has a strong urban dimension. In fact, cities are places where such inequalities grow quickly, and have influence on the living conditions perspectives different groups. this sense, segregation becomes an important warning assessing existence disparities that affect most disadvantaged Therefore, aim research was to outline evidence phenomenon re...

The application of Waste-to-Energy treatment in Municipal Solid Waste faces strong protest by local communities, especially in cities with high population densities. This study introduces insight into the public awareness, acceptance and risk perception toward Waste-to-Energy through a structured questionnaire survey around a Waste-to-Energy facility in Shanghai, China. The Dichotomous-Choice c...

Universities in South Africa are a microcosm of society and thus offer grounds for criticism. In 2015, the Rhodes Must Fall student movement emerged, which demanded decolonization. This became one most important social movements post-apartheid Africa. While was formed to protest against university, students created space transformative learning within frame university. article examines ambivale...

This study compares an ordered probit model and a Tobit model with selection to take into account both true zero and protest zero bids while estimating the willingness to pay (WTP) for coi~servation easements in Macon County, NC. By comparing the two models, the ordere~Uunordered selection issue of the protest responses is analyzed to demonstrate how the treatment of protest responses can signi...

B Overview of Individual Psychology B Biography of Alfred Adler B Introduction to Adlerian Theory B Striving for Success or Superiority The Final Goal The Striving Force as Compensation Striving for Personal Superiority Striving for Success B Subjective Perceptions Fictionalism Physical Inferiorities B Unity and Self-Consistency of Personality Organ Dialect Conscious and Unconscious B Social In...