Week 11 supplemental readings: Individual participation in politics

Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, Charles Tilly. Dynamics of contention (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.) (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES HM866 .M23 2001)

Javelin, Debra, “The Role of Blame in Collective Action: Evidence from Russia” American Political Science Review (2003), 97:107-121

Yashar, Deborah. (1996). “Indigenous protest and democracy in Latin America.” In Jorge I. Domínguez & Abraham F. Lowenthal (Eds.), Constructing democratic governance: Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s (pp. 87-105). (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press).

Timur Kuran. 1991. “Now Out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989 (in Liberalization and Democratization in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe)”, World Politics 44(October): 7-48.

Susanne Lohmann. 1994. “The Dynamics of Informational Cascades: The Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany, 1989-91,” World Politics 47 (October): 42-101.

Mancur Olson. The Rise and Decline of Nations. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), chapter 1 (summarizes The Logic of Collective Action)

Albert Hirschman. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970), chapters 1-4.

Herbert Kitschelt, “Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest,” British Journal of Political Science, 16, num.1, pp. 57-85.

Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 9-27, 62-78.

Finkel SE, “Civic education and the mobilization of political participation in developing democracies,” Journal of Politics 64 (4): 994-1020 NOV 2002