Date of Award

1-1-2014

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Public Administration and Policy

Content Description

1 online resource (vii, 201 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Victor Asal

Committee Members

David F Andersen, R. K Rethemeyer

Keywords

Contentious Politics, Feedback, Political Opportunity Structures, Relative Deprivation, Resource Mobilization, System Dynamics, Political participation, Social movements, Social action, Social conflict

Subject Categories

Public Administration

Abstract

In political science, several theories of contentious politics hold that political action results from complex dynamic interactions between political groups and other stakeholders, such as their governments. This dissertation creates an integrated feedback view of three such theories of contentious politics (Relative Deprivation, Resource Mobilization, and Political Opportunity Structures) as well as three recent attempts to integrate these theories (Collier & Hoeffler, 2000; Regan & Norton, 2005; Wimmer, Cederman, & Min, 2009). This integrated feedback view provides a better understanding of the link between these theories' causal structure and behavior.

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