The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social MovementsRoutledge, 2006 - 375 pages Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained - although often subtle and difficult-to observe - suppression in this country. Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement. |
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... repression of active , political dissent . " Because of the routinization of protest in the United States , direct repression by the coercive tentacles of the state may be on the decline ( Oliver and Maney 2000 ) . State police agencies ...
... repression of active , political dissent . " Because of the routinization of protest in the United States , direct repression by the coercive tentacles of the state may be on the decline ( Oliver and Maney 2000 ) . State police agencies ...
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... REPRESSION AND SUPPRESSION Repression is an important factor external to social movements that affects the ability of these social movements to engage in collective action . Never- theless , political repression often escapes definition ...
... REPRESSION AND SUPPRESSION Repression is an important factor external to social movements that affects the ability of these social movements to engage in collective action . Never- theless , political repression often escapes definition ...
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... repression can serve to either depress collective action or raise the costs of collective organization and mobilization . He writes ( 1978 , 100 ) , " repression is any action by another group which raises the con- tender's cost of ...
... repression can serve to either depress collective action or raise the costs of collective organization and mobilization . He writes ( 1978 , 100 ) , " repression is any action by another group which raises the con- tender's cost of ...
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