Greed, grievances, and mobilization are generally offered as explanations for rebellion and civil war. The authors extend arguments about the precursors to nonviolent protest, violent rebellion, and civil war. These arguments motivate a series of hypotheses that are tested against data from the Minorities at Risk project. The results of the analysis suggest, first, that the factors that predict...

Comparative effectiveness research may stimulate heated debate, but ultimately, those who question its findings need to provide high-quality data to support their arguments ne consequence of the continuing rise in the cost of health care has been the emergence of comparative effectiveness research. 1 This variant of evidence-based medicine is defined as:. .. the generation and synthesis of evid...

Thirty-six 1-year-old middle-class children with fathers who spent differential time with them at home were observed in two experimental contexts separated by 2 weeks. In the first, each infant was shown six to eight repetitions of three different nonsocial events followed by a change in the repeated standard. In the second, each infant experienced the unannounced entrances and departures of hi...

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Information, Communication, and Society following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Garrett, R. K. (2006). Protest in an Information Society: A Review of Literature on Social Movements and New ICTs. Information, Communication and Society, 9(2), 202-224.] is available online at: h...

A recent trend in the literature on social movements is the focus on how social movement organizations influence not only their challengers but also other social movement organizations, both in other movements and movements in diffrent countries. This article shows how diffusion theory helps us to better understand this process by specifing ways in which social movement organizations within the...