Research into political engagement is currently divided into two literatures: research on “conventional” and “unconventional” participation (Milbrath, 1965; McFarland and Thomas, 1996; Goldstone, 2003; Heaney and Rohas, 2006). Downward trends in “conventional” political engagement have been attributed to staff-run advocacy organizations that encourage members to contribute money but not engage ...

Many social movements face fierce resistance in the form of a countermovement. Therefore, when deciding to become politically active, movement supporter has consider both her own movement’s activity and that opponent. This paper studies decision attend protest faced with counterprotest. We implement two field experiments among supporters right- left-leaning ahead protest–counterprotest interact...

Motivations for migrating within the European Union have mainly been attributed to economic, career and lifestyle choices. This article suggests that political dissatisfaction is also an important motivator of recent intra-European migration. In our analysis of in-depth interviews with Romanian migrants in Spain and with Spanish migrants in Norway, we found a common emphasis on the political di...

Do social media incite protest movements, how? How does onsite shape online communication dynamics on media? We examine the oft-debated relationship between activity and protest, considering Yellow Vests or Gilets Jaunes movement in France. use data of temporal spatial distribution Facebook events over a year mobilization to address these questions within system interacting offline activity. Th...

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...

The history of the Animal Protection Movement is discussed as a case of social movement transformation. Transformation here refers to significant shifts in the goals, strategies, tactics, and membership of the movement and that I suggest reflect the shifting institutional bases of the movement. What emerges as a reform movement of aging elite evangelicals in the earlyto midNineteenth Century En...