The driving force of the struggle

Author: Micaiah Adams
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: The Dynamics of Struggle comes from the hands of three first-class scholars, and it is undoubtedly one of the most ambitious and perhaps most important works on social movements (and related phenomena) in the past two decades. — Sociology This book selects 18 instances of struggles that have occurred around the world since the French Revolution, attempting to propose a more general framework for studying various political struggles in different periods and regions through comparative analysis. The authors elaborate on the meaning of the methods they use to explain issues such as revolution, nationalism, and democratization, striving to identify the various mechanisms and processes that repeatedly trigger widespread struggles in political activities, such as intermediation, category formation, and elite betrayal, etc. This challenges the prevailing static single-agent model in the current field of struggle politics research and shifts the focus of analysis to the dynamic interactions within struggles.