Books in the Elements in Contentious Politics series

This Element has two main aims. The first is to provide a explanation of how the micro-interactions between insurgents, authorities, and third parties contributed to the emergence of insurgency in Ferguson. The second aim of this Element is to theorize the effects of micro-interactions on the mobilization of insurgency more generally.

Movements and parties have given rise to two largely separates specialties in the social sciences. This Element is an effort to link the two literatures, using evidence from American political development. It identifies five relational mechanisms governing movement/party relations: two of them short term, two intermediate term, and one long-term.