The Strategy of Social Protest.

Key Points

• To examine the structural, organizational, and strategic factors that determine whether social protest groups successfully achieve political influence and policy goals.
• Historical and comparative analysis of challenging groups and social movements.
• Evaluation of movement characteristics including group solidarity, organizational readiness, tactical militancy, and political permeability.
• Demonstrates that disruptive or unruly tactics and high organizational combat readiness are strongly associated with movement success.
• Identifies that focused goals and structured mobilization overcome the structural limits of political pluralism more effectively than diffuse solidarity alone.