This article reviews research on political repression by social movement scholars. Four
topics are discussed:(a) debates over the conceptualization of repression, the breadth of the …

Social movements rely on coalitions to help mobilize the mass numbers of people necessary
for success. In this article, we review the literature on social movement coalition formation …

Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American
democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make …

Civil society is frequently conceived as a field of multiple organizations, committed to highly
diverse causes and interests. When studied empirically, however, its properties are often …

What qualities make a leader succeed in business or politics? In an era when the
information revolution has dramatically changed the playing field, when old organizational …

Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the
current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action …

With civic engagement commonly understood to be on the decline and traditional bases of
community and means of engagement increasingly fractured, how do people become …

Sensegiving—shaping how people understand themselves, their work, and others engaged
in that work—is critical to the work of organizational leadership. We propose the “cognitive …

Yes, this is another book about leadership. I apologize. And to tell you the truth it has been
extremely hard to convince myself that the world really needed one, and that I had …

Activism in any social movement group is, as Deborah Gould observes, a project of
collective 'world-making'. It is about changing the world out there by influencing policy and …