How Social Movements Die

Repression and Demobilization of the Republic of New Africa

By:

Christian Davenport

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Series:

Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics

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How do social movements die? Some explanations highlight internal factors like factionalization, whereas others stress external factors like repression. Christian Davenport offers an alternative explanation where both factors interact. Drawing on organizational, as well as individual-level, explanations, Davenport argues that social movement death is the outgrowth of a coevolutionary dynamic whereby challengers, influenced by their understanding of what states will do to oppose them, attempt to recruit, motivate, calm, and prepare constituents while governments attempt to hinder all of these processes at the same time. Davenport employs a previously unavailable database that contains information on a black nationalist/secessionist organization, the Republic of New Africa, and the activities of authorities in the US city of Detroit and state and federal authorities.

Author Biography:

Christian Davenport is Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan, as well as Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. He is the author of State Repression and the Promise of Democratic Peace (Cambridge, 2007) and Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party (Cambridge, 2010), which won an award for the best book in racial politics and social movements from the American Political Science Association. He is the editor of Repression and Mobilization, with Carol Mueller and Hank Johnston (2004), and Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics (2000).

Release date Australia

December 22nd, 2014

Author

Christian Davenport

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

2 Tables, unspecified; 7 Halftones, unspecified; 20 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

366

Series

Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics

Dimensions

24x229x152

ISBN-13

9781107041493

Product ID

22470484

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