01594nam a2200337 a 4500 EDZ0000082850 StDuBDS 20170921095551.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120418s2012 nyu fo| 000 0 eng|d 9780199951161 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS HM881 .B54 2012 322.40974886 23 Blee, Kathleen M. Democracy in the making : how activist groups form / [electronic resource] Kathleen M. Blee. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 1 online resource. Oxford studies in culture & politics Includes bibliographical references. Kathleen M. Blee provides an in-depth look at modern grassroots activism, and reveals its simultaneous power and fragility. In the process, she examines the struggle between democratic vision and strategic reality that shapes each organisation's trajectory and determines its ultimate success or failure. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 26, 2012). Social movements Pennsylvania Pittsburgh History 21st century. Social change Pennsylvania Pittsburgh. Democracy Pennsylvania Pittsburgh. Print version 9780199842766 Oxford studies in culture & politics. Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199842766.001.0001 ddc BK 36533 36533