02098nam a22003258a 4500 CR9780511920967 UkCbUP 20180107143415.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100923s2012||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511920967 (ebook) 9781107009387 (hardback) 9781107402010 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda HM881 .T374 2012 303.48/409182109045 23 Tarrow, Sidney, author. Strangers at the Gates : Movements and States in Contentious Politics / [electronic resource] Sidney Tarrow. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). This book contains the products of work carried out over four decades of research in Italy, France and the United States, and in the intellectual territory between social movements, comparative politics, and historical sociology. Using a variety of methods ranging from statistical analysis to historical case studies to linguistic analysis, the book centers on historical catalogs of protest events and cycles of collective action. Sidney Tarrow places social movements in the broader arena of contentious politics, in relation to states, political parties and other actors. From peasants and communists in 1960s Italy, to movements and politics in contemporary western polities, to the global justice movement in the new century, the book argues that contentious actors are neither outside of nor completely within politics, but rather they occupy the uncertain territory between total opposition and integration into policy. Political sociology Print version: 9781107009387 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920967 Cambridge Books Online 236693 236693