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Doug McAdam

Doug McAdam (born August 31, 1951)[1] is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books and over fifty articles, and is widely credited as one of the pioneers of the political process model in social movement analysis.[citation needed] He wrote one of the first books on the theory in 1982 when analyzing the U.S. Civil Rights Movement: Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency 1930-1970. His other book Freedom Summer won the C. Wright Mills Award in 1990. He served as the director of the prestigious Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences between 2001 and 2005. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

  1. ^ Contemporary Authors: New revision series. Gale. 1997. p. 271. ISBN 978-0-7876-1058-6.

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Social theorists Peter Eisinger, Sidney Tarrow, David S. Meyer and Doug McAdam are considered among the most prominent supporters of the theory. Three...

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University Press, 2010. McAdam, Doug. The biographical impact of activism. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. McCammon, Holly J., Courtney...

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Freedom Summer

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Year by Year History 1960-1970". Mapping American Social Movements. Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer (Oxford Univ. Press, 1988), p. 66. Wang, Hansi Lo (June...

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Charles Tilly

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influential books on social movements: Dynamics of Contention (2001), with Doug McAdam and Sidney Tarrow; and Contentious Politics (2006) with Sidney Tarrow...

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role...

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larger and lose focus on initial key issues. One example, pursued by Doug McAdam in his writing Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency...

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entrepreneurial (economic) version of the theory, and Charles Tilly and Doug McAdam are proponents of the political version of resource mobilization called...

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ISBN 0-87805-225-9. McAdam, Doug. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930–1970, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1982. McAdam, Doug, 'The...

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The Washington Post. In 1990, the Australian alternative comedy rock band Doug Anthony All Stars released an album called Icon. One song from Icon, "Shang-a-lang"...

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Black bloc

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and the Anti-globalization Movement. Rutgers University Press. p. 59. Doug McAdam, et al. "There Will Be Fighting in the Streets: The Distorting Lens of...

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Opportunity structure

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development of the movement; such factors are called opportunity structures. Doug McAdam summarizes at least four key dynamic components of the political opportunity...

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Sidney Tarrow

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1998. (with Doug Imig) Contentious Europeans: Protest and Politics in a Europeanizing Polity. Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. (with Doug McAdam and Charles...

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Revolutionary movement

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Movements. Westview Press. pp. 10–13. ISBN 978-0-8133-4515-4. Marco Giugni; Doug McAdam; Charles Tilly (1998). From Contention to Democracy. Rowman & Littlefield...

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Political movement

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2015. Snow, David A., Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements....

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Diversity of tactics

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Jacksonville and many other sites of protest in the following months. Doug McAdam cited "Axe-handle Saturday" as an example of the specter of violent crisis...

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Harry Belafonte

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event that concluded "with a thunderous audience singalong" with rapper Doug E. Fresh to 1956's "Banana Boat Song". Soon after, the New York Public Library's...

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Neil Fligstein

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cooperative political means. In 2012, he published a book along with Doug McAdam titled A Theory of Fields that proposes a cohesive view of field theory...

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Michael Eric Dyson

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Kevin Coval, Kyra D. Gaunt ("Professor G"), dream hampton, Marc Lamont Hill, Adam Mansbach, and Mark Anthony Neal. Dyson's own essay in this anthology, "'One...

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Montgomery bus boycott

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Bus Boycott, page 123. Charro Book Co., Inc., 1991. ISBN 0-9629468-0-X McAdam, Doug (December 1983). "Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency". American...

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Radical flank effect

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complete financial records, it was more extensive than the data used by Doug McAdam in his classic work on resource mobilization. Haines' data was thorough...

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Social movement theory

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surreptitiously rely on rational-choice assumptions without admitting it. McAdam, Doug (1982). Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970...

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

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APRIL 9: Senator Doug Jones to Lead Bipartisan Commemorative Reading of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail", Doug Jones, U.S. Senate...

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