With crucial insights and indispensable information concerning modern-day political upheavals, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements provides a representative cross section of the most significant revolutions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This fourth edition is revised and updated with special focus on Islamic fundamentalism and Islamic revolutionary movements and a new chapter on the Latin American democratic revolutions of the past decade. In this widely used text, students can trace the historical development of nine revolutions using a five-factor analytical framework. Author James DeFronzo clearly explains all relevant concepts and events, the roles of key leaders, and the interrelation of each revolutionary movement with international economic and political developments and conflicts, including World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror. Student resources include multiple orienting maps, summary and analysis sections, suggested readings, chronologies, and documentary resources.

What role has litigation played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men? This book explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement since the 1970s. This work explores the political strategies in more than a dozen pay equity struggles since the late 1970s, including battles of state employees in Washington and Connecticut, as well as city employees in San Jose and Los Angeles. Relying on interviews with over 140 union and feminist activists, the author shows that, even when the courts failed to correct wage discrimination, litigation and other forms of legal advocacy provided reformers with the legal discourse - the understanding of legal rights and their constraints - for defining and advancing their cause.

How can the poor and weak “work”a political system to their advantage?
Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China, Kevin O’Brien and
Lianjiang Li show that popular action often hinges on locating and exploiting
divisions within the state. Otherwise powerless people use the rhetoric and
commitments of the central government to try to fight misconduct by local
officials, open up clogged channels of participation, and push back the frontiers of the permissible. This “rightful resistance” has far-reaching implications for our understanding of contentious politics. As O’Brien and Li explore the origins, dynamics, and consequences of rightful resistance, they highlight similarities between collective action in places as varied as China, the former East Germany, and the United States, while suggesting how Chinese experiences speak to issues such as opportunities to protest, claims radicalization, tactical innovation, and the outcomes of contention. Although the focus of their rich, ground-level analysis is contemporary China, the authors make a compelling argument that wherever a gap between rights promised and rights delivered exists, there is room for rightful resistance to emerge.

查尔斯·蒂利和西德尼·塔罗在本书中讨论了抗争政治的各种形式，包括革命、社会运动、宗教和伦理冲突、民族主义和公民权利以及跨国界运动等。它还为各种不同抗争的研究、比较和解释提供了一套分析工具和程序，阐释了抗争剧目和抗争表演的关系。作者还分析了历史上和当前的许多案例，包括二战后的波兰、巴以冲突、本·拉登问题和苏丹内战。他们向读者提供了一种社会和政治分析的清晰范式。

本书选取了自法国大革命以来发生在世界各地的18例斗争事件，试图通过比较性的分析，为研究不同时期、不同地域的各类政治斗争事件提出一个较具一般性的方案。几位作者详细说明了他们在解释革命、民族主义及民主化问题时所使用方法的含义，力图辨明一再引发广泛的斗争政治活动的各种机制及其作用过程，如居间联络、范畴形成和精英背叛等等，由此对目前斗争政治研究领域盛行的静态的单一行动者模式提出批判，并将分析的重心转移到斗争中的动态互动上。

对于社会运动、政治运动以及革命的研究在国内一直未见专著。本书可以弥补这一空白。本书对社会运动与革命进行了界定并评述了其研究方法，综合论述了西方社会运动和革命理论的发展，阐述了集体行为以及情感在社会运动中的作用。并提出了研究社会运动的宏观影响因素：变迁、结构以及话语。强调了国家在社会运动发展中的重要作用。并对社会运动研究领域内的几个重要理论作了一定的评述。