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The Politics of Collective Violence (4)
Two-dimensional Typology: 1. Salience of short-run damage: intermittently violent → predominantly violent △ Determined by the accessibility of violence and specialists in violence, i.e. thugs and...
Source: Reiss & Roth (1993, p.22) - Intervening in the bio and psy development of individuals' potentials for violent behaviors; - modifying places, routine activities, and situations that prom... (2回应)
Broadly speaking, observers of human violence divide into three camps: idea people, behavior people, and relation people. The three camps differ in their understanding of fundamental causes in huma...
Human life is one mistake after another. We make mistakes, detect them, repair them, then go on to make more mistakes. Errors and error correction fill our days. If we are lucky, smart, or surround... (1回应)
The Strategy of Social Protest (3)
Mancur Olson (1965) The Logic of Collective Action It is often taken for granted that groups of individuals with common interests usually attempt to further those common interests. Groups of indivi...
# Three Choices of protest strategy All movements must make a series of choices: 1. Between single issue demands and multiple demands 2. Between radical demands and demands that do not attack the l...
# Measuring the success These outcomes fall into two basic clusters: 1. one concerned with the fate of the challenging group as an organization -- the acceptance of the group by its antagonists as ...
Democracy Disrupted (2)
But while social scientists have raced to study how social media made the new protest wave possible, there has been surprisingly little interest in how social media also contributed to the rise of ...
What strikes any observer of the new wave of revolutionary politics is that it is a revolution without an ideology or a project. Protesting itself seems to be the strategic goal of many of the prot...
Linked (2)
Milgram's six degrees and the Web's nineteen degrees suggest that small separations are common in just about every network scientists have had a chance to study. Indeed, species in food webs appear... (1回应)
P.21: The premise of random network model is deeply egalitarian: We place the links completely randomly; thus all nodes have the same chance of getting one. If the network is large, despite the lin...