Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements; Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings Book

	Biographical sketches of contributors
	Preface
	Introduction: Opportunities, mobilizing structures, and framing processes - toward a synthetic, comparative perspective on social movements	1
1	Conceptual origins, current problems, future directions	23
2	States and opportunities: The political structuring of social movements	41
3	Social movements and the state: Thoughts on the policing of protest	62
4	Opportunities and framing in the Eastern European revolts of 1989	93
5	Opportunities and framing in the transition to democracy: The case of Russia	122
6	Constraints and opportunities in adopting, adapting, and inventing	141
7	The organizational structure of new social movements in a political context	152
8	The impact of national contexts on social movement structures: A cross-movement and cross-national comparison	185
9	Organizational form as frame: Collective identity and political strategy in the American labor movement, 1880-1920	205
10	The collapse of a social movement: The interplay of mobilizing structures, framing, and political opportunities in the Knights of Labor	227
11	Culture, ideology, and strategic framing	261
12	Framing political opportunity	275
13	Accessing public, media, electoral, and governmental agendas	291
14	Media discourse, movement publicity, and the generation of collective action frames: Theoretical and empirical exercises in meaning construction	312
15	The framing function of movement tactics: Strategic dramaturgy in the American civil rights movement	338
	Notes	357
	References	379
	Index	411