Description: This book, first published in 2003, attempts to explain collective violence and to identify the best ways to mitigate it.
Review Quotes: "The Politics of Collective Violence offers an arsenal of testable hypotheses that have the capacity to render intelligible the actions of statesmen, terrorists, and road-ragers who turn to violence as a means of staking claims, asserting identity, or exacting retribution...Tilly has drawn the subject of violence into the same rational-strategic frame that defines political process theory." American Journal of Sociology