Oliver, Pamela E. and Daniel J. Myers, Mobilization (2003)
8(1):
1-24.
This paper investigates the co-evolution of protest
movements
with regimes and other actors in their environments. Formal
models of diffusion, adaptive learning, mutual reinforcement,
and inter-actor competition are developed and compared
to empirical protest series. Overall, the analysis suggests
that movement dynamics are shaped more by interactions
with
other actors than by processes internal to a movement.
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