Multi-Sectoral Coalitions and Popular Movement Participation
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
ISBN: 978-0-76231-263-4, eISBN: 978-1-84950-380-8
Publication date: 20 December 2005
Abstract
The article focuses on varying protest intensities of social movement activists in an authoritarian political environment. Drawing on a sample of participants in El Salvador's El movimiento popular, the paper examines how structural location in the resistance movement's multi-sectoral organizational infrastructure shapes the level of participation. Those motivated by state repression and maintaining multiple or cross-sectoral organizational ties exhibited higher levels of protest participation. The findings suggest that more attention be given to how the multi-sectoral network structure of opposition coalitions induces micro-mobilization processes of individual participation in high-risk collective action.
Citation
Almeida, P.D. (2005), "Multi-Sectoral Coalitions and Popular Movement Participation", Coy, P.G. (Ed.) Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Vol. 26), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 63-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-786X(05)26003-2
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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