Doug McAdam

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McAdam, Doug, Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency

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McAdam, Doug, Freedom Summer

A detailed study of SNCC’s Mississippi summer project in 1964.

McAdam, Doug, The US Civil Rights Movement: Power from Below and Above, 1945-70

In Timothy Garton Ash, Adam Roberts, Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements)

Tilly, Charles; McAdam, Doug; Tarrow, Sidney, The Dynamics of Contentious Politics

Book by three important authors in the field of social movements who also have some interest in nonviolent action – they address the role of nonviolent action more directly in their contribution to the ‘Symposium on Nonviolence’ (see below).

, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

ed. Della Porta, Donatella; McAdam, Doug; Snow, David; Klandermans, Bert, 3

Covers period since the French Revolution, but also contains summary accounts of numerous contemporary movements and organizations, including many included in this volume.

McAdam, Doug; Snow, David, Readings on Social Movements: Origins, Dynamics and Outcomes

1997

, Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings

ed. McAdam, Doug; McCarthy, John; Zald, Mayer,

McAdam, Doug, Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970

1982

McAdam, a leading social movement theorist, has written widely on various aspects and interpretations of the Civil Rights Movement, including Doug McAdam, The US Civil Rights Movement: Power from Below and Above, 1945-70, In Timothy Garton Ash, Adam Roberts, Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009 , pp. 58-74 . His influential article  Doug McAdam, Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency, 1985 , pp. 735-754  (reprinted in Doug McAdam, David A. Snow, Readings on Social Movements: Origins, Dynamics and Outcomes (A. 7. Important Reference Works and Websites) ) highlights how innovative tactics of mass action broke through institutionalised powerlessness.