How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are they more radically transformative? Examining major episodes of contention in American politics – from the Civil War era to the women's rights and civil rights movements to the Tea Party and Trumpism today – Sidney Tarrow tackles these questions and provides a new account of how the interactions between movements and parties have been transformed over the course of American history. He shows that the relationships between movements and parties have been central to American democratization – at times expanding it and at times threatening its future. Today, movement politics have become more widespread as the parties have become weaker. The future of American democracy hangs in the balance.
Author(s): Sidney Tarrow
Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 288
City: Cambridge
Cover
Movements and Parties
Dedication
Contents
Tables
Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Movements and Parties in Contentious Politics
PART I. THE “PARTY PERIOD”
2. Mass Politics in the Civil War Crucible
3. The Agrarian Revolt, Populism, and the Gilded Age Party System
PART II. THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD
4. Women, War, and the Vote
5. Labor and Civil Rights from the New Deal to the War on Poverty
PART III. HOLLOWING PARTIES IN A MOVEMENT SOCIETY
6. The Long New Right
7. The Hybridization of the Party System
PART IV. CONTEMPORARY CONJUNCTIONS
8. Trumpism and the Movements He Made
9. Learning about America from Abroad
Conclusions
References
Index
