Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Terrorists

365 Pages·2015·1.23 MB·English

by  Beck

Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Part I: The Known Knowns
1 What is Radicalism?
The study of movements, revolution,
and terrorism
Conceptualizing terrorism
Conceptualizing revolution
Conceptualizing radicalism
The chapters to come
Notes
2 Who is Radical?
Individual participation in radicalism
Social support for radicalism
Radical leaderships
The social psychology of radicalism
Summary
Notes
3 How Do Radical Movements Organize?
Types of radical organizations
Networks and recruitment to
movements
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Revolutionary coalitions
Radical flanks, spillover, and spill-out
Summary
Notes
4 When and Where Does Radicalism
Occur?
Structural causes of radicalism
Regime type and radicalism
The role of civil society and media
Global and historical contexts of
radicalism
Summary
Notes
Part II: The Known Unknowns
5 Is Radicalism about Ideas and
Ideology?
Culture and action in radicalism
Culture and structure in radicalism
Religion and terrorism
Ideology and the course of revolution
Summary
6 Is There a Life Cycle of Radicalism?
Repertoires of contention and
innovation
Repression and elite adaptation
Outcomes of radicalism
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A modest proposal: From
revolutionary coalitions to outcomes
Summary
Notes
7 How and Why Does Radicalism Diffuse
in Waves?
Channels of diffusion
Actors, social similarity, and
relevance in diffusion
Time, space, and context of radical
waves
Summary
Notes
8 What is the Past and Future of
Radicalism?
The future of radicals,
revolutionaries, and terrorists
References
Index
End User License Agreement
Figures
1.1 Percentage of articles and books indexed
in Sociological Abstracts and Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts by subject
heading, 1970–2013
1.2 Conceptualizing radicalism, revolution,
and terrorism
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4.1 Regimes and propensity for contention
type
6.1 The co-evolution of repertoires and
repression in radicalism
6.2 Dominant partners in coalitions and
outcomes of revolutions
7.1 The diffusion process
8.1 Radicals, revolutionaries, or terrorists?
Tables
2.1 Examples of studies on participants in
radical movements
3.1 Basic organizational structures, common
contexts, and examples of radical,
revolutionary, and terrorist groups
5.1 Different approaches to understanding
ideology and militant Islam
7.1 Transnational conditions, diffusion, and
radical waves
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Social Movements series
Colin J. Beck, Radicals, Revolutionaries, and
Terrorists
Stephanie Luce, Labor Movements: Global
Perspectives
David Walls, Community Organizing: Fanning
the Flame of Democracy
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Radicals,
Revolutionaries, and
Terrorists
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