The Phantom at The Opera
Social Movements and Institutional Politics

This Element is an effort to link the literatures of movements and parties using evidence from American political development.

Sidney Tarrow (Author)

9781009044516, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 January 2022

75 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm, 0.101 kg

Movements and parties have given rise to two largely separates specialties in the social sciences. This Element is an effort to link the two literatures, using evidence from American political development. It identifies five relational mechanisms governing movement/party relations: two of them short term, two intermediate term, and one long-term. It closes with a reflection on the role of movement/party relations in democratization and for democratic resilience.

1. What Was Happening Here?
2. Moves Toward Fusion
3. Movement/Party Relations in Critical Junctures
4. Two Short-Term Linkage Mechanisms
5. Two Intermediate-Level Mechanisms
6. Movements, Parties, and Democracy.

Subject Areas: Demonstrations & protest movements [JPWF], Political manifestos [JPLM], Political parties [JPL]