Description: Although living conditions have improved throughout history, protest, at least in the last few decades, seems to have increased to the point of becoming a normal phenomenon in modern societies. Contributors to this volume examine how and why this is the case and argue that alt...
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"This edited volume makes a useful addition to the literature on protest." --Political Studies Review
"A useful volume on methods for analyzing protest events, chiefly but not exclusively treating the question of data sources, especially commercial mass media." --Mobilization "Acts of Dissent is a timely review of methodological questions, with intriguing applications to protests in states ranging from the former Soviet Union to South Africa. . . . The organizers/editors of the volume . . . have successfully invigorated international scholarly networks . . . the diversity of applications has called forth a variety of solutions." --Contemporary Sociology