Douglas John Mcadam

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Douglas John Mcadam

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Douglas John Mcadam's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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Dynamics of Contention (2002) (3774)
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970 (1982) (3492)
A Theory of Fields (2012) (1083)
Toward a General Theory of Strategic Action Fields* (2010) (957)
Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency (1983) (818)
Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (2001) (374)
Civil Society Reconsidered: The Durable Nature and Community Structure of Collective Civic Action1 (2005) (363)
THE WAR AT HOME: ANTIWAR PROTESTS AND CONGRESSIONAL VOTING, 1965 TO 1973 (2002) (357)
How Social Movements Matter (1999) (329)
Social movements and the changing structure of political opportunity in the European union 1 (1996) (312)
Collective identity and activism: Networks, choices, and the life of a social movement. (1992) (302)
To Map Contentious Politics (1996) (243)
Ballots and Barricades: On the Reciprocal Relationship between Elections and Social Movements (2010) (241)
From Interactions to Outcomes in Social Movements (1999) (219)
Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics: IT'S ABOUT TIME: TEMPORALITY IN THE STUDY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND REVOLUTIONS (2001) (218)
BEYOND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS: TOWARD A MORE DYNAMIC UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (2002) (210)
Emotions And Contentious Politics (2002) (198)
Putting Social Movements in their Place: Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000-2005 (2012) (179)
On the Relationship of Political Opportunities to the Form of Collective Action: the Case of the European Union (1999) (164)
Methods for Measuring Mechanisms of Contention (2008) (158)
Dynamics of Contention: Contents (2001) (153)
Protest Events: Cause or Consequence of State Action? The U.S. Women's Movement and Federal Congressional Activities, 1956-1979 (1999) (149)
“Site Fights”: Explaining Opposition to Pipeline Projects in the Developing World1 (2010) (115)
From contention to democracy (1998) (108)
Why Civil Resistance Works (2008) (102)
Collective Behavior And Social Movements: Process and Structure (1993) (93)
Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America (2014) (86)
Documentary Identification and Mass Surveillance in the United States (1983) (48)
Nonviolence as Contentious Interaction* (2000) (43)
Introduction: Dynamics of Contention Ten Years On (2011) (43)
Comparative Politics: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CONTENTIOUS POLITICS (2009) (42)
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970.@@@The State Against Blacks. (1983) (35)
Initiator and Spin‐Off Movements (2013) (35)
The politics of privacy (1980) (35)
The Politics of Privacy: Planning for Personal Data Systems as Powerful Technologies (1981) (35)
A Political–Cultural Approach to the Problem of Strategic Action (2012) (29)
Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics: References (2001) (27)
The Political Context of Social Movements (2018) (26)
Dynamics of Contention (2003) (18)
Silence and Voice in Contentious Politics (2001) (17)
Preserving individual autonomy in an information-oriented society (1991) (11)
Dynamics of Contention: LINEAMENTS OF CONTENTION (2001) (10)
States, social movements and markets† (2019) (10)
High-Tech Urbanism The Political and Economic Implications of the Smart City (2013) (10)
Toward a Theory of Strategic Action Fields (2012) (9)
Global Projects: Social movements and the growth in opposition to global projects (2011) (9)
Political Process Theory (2013) (9)
The Field of Theory (2014) (9)
Global Projects: “Site fights”: explaining opposition to pipeline projects in the developing world (2011) (9)
Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics: HARMONIZING THE VOICES: THEMATIC CONTINUITY ACROSS THE CHAPTERS (2001) (7)
Response to Goldstone and Useem (2012) (6)
Dynamics of Contention: CONTENTIOUS DEMOCRATIZATION (2001) (6)
Interventions: Dynamics of Contention (2003) (5)
Progressive Polemics: Reflections on Four Stimulating Commentaries (2008) (4)
Putting Social Movements in their Place: Bibliography (2012) (4)
Tactical Interaction and Innovation (2013) (3)
9. Legacies of Anti-Americanism: A Sociological Perspective (2018) (3)
Dynamics of Contention: WHAT ARE THEY SHOUTING ABOUT? (2001) (2)
Dynamics of Contention: CONTENTIOUS ACTION (2001) (2)
Culture and Social Movements: Originally published in New Social Movements: From Ideology to Identity, 1994 (2000) (1)
Putting Social Movements in their Place: Explaining Variation in the Level of Opposition to Energy Projects (2012) (1)
Putting Donald Trump in Historical Perspective (2018) (1)
Dynamics of Contention: CONCLUSIONS (2001) (1)
MOBILIZATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (2001) (1)
Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics: Preface (2001) (1)
Change and Stability in Strategic Action Fields (2012) (1)
Putting Social Movements in their Place: From Copernicus to Ptolemy and (Hopefully) Back Again (2012) (1)
Putting Social Movements in their Place: Does Opposition Matter? (2012) (1)
Toward a Social Psychology of Social Movements (2016) (1)
A Collective Object for the Sociology of Morality Project (2016) (0)
State Sponsorship or State Failure? Mass Killings in Rural China, 1967-68 (2003) (0)
Civic Engagement among Disadvantaged Youth: How Does School Context Matter? (2012) (0)
Interview Sources by Case (2012) (0)
Dynamics of Contention: Preface and Acknowledgments (2001) (0)
The Gist of It (2012) (0)
Children's Development of Interpersonal Resources (1981) (0)
Political process and the Black protest movement, 1948-1970 (1979) (0)
Strands of Classical Theory in the Study of Social Movements (2021) (0)
Movement History@@@Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970. (1983) (0)
States, Parties, and Social Movements: Foreword (2003) (0)
Putting Social Movements in their Place: Additional Community Data Collected Not Used in Causal and Outcome Condition Scoring (2012) (0)
In the fall of 2002, the firm Windland Inc. announced its intention to construct a cluster of 210-foot-tall wind turbines on 7,000 acres of land in south-central Idaho (2014) (0)
HOW MANAGE THIRD SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS IN CONTEXTS OF CRISIS? COMPARATIVE AND COMMUNICATION STUDY ON CUBAN AND COSTA RICAN NGOS (2010) (0)
Dynamics of Contention: COMPARISONS, MECHANISMS, AND EPISODES (2001) (0)
Does Opposition Matter? Mobilization and Project Outcome in Energy Facility Siting (2011) (0)
Working Towards Sustainable Commutes: An Analysis of Cyclists on Caltrain and BART (2011) (0)
Dynamics of Contention: References (2001) (0)
Pathways of Insurgency: Black Liberation Struggle and the Second Reconstruction, 1945-1975 (2019) (0)
Raw Data and Methods for Scoring Causal Conditions (2012) (0)
Illustrating the Perspective (2012) (0)
Dynamics of Contention: NATIONALISM, NATIONAL DISINTEGRATION, AND CONTENTION (2001) (0)
Putting Social Movements in their Place: From Not in My Backyard to Not in Anyone’s Backyard (2012) (0)
Dynamics of Contention: REVOLUTIONARY TRAJECTORIES (2001) (0)
Dynamics of Contention: TRANSFORMATIONS OF CONTENTION (2001) (0)
Putting Social Movements in their Place: Comparing Communities “At Risk” for Mobilization (2012) (0)