Why African Americans do not rebel? is there no armed insurrection of across the USA, especially in cities and states where they make up almost half population? In many parts world, ethnic, racial, religious groups that are much smaller size, less disadvantaged socioeconomically politically, with relatively fewer historical grievances than Americans, launched insurrections lasted for decades. T...

Far-right collective action has previously been explained in terms of grievances. However, this does not adequately explain mobilisations after ingroup-relevant successes. Based on the broader literature, we suggest that analysing experiences subjective power before and during may significantly complement existing explanations far-right mobilisations...

In the summer of 2013, Brazil experienced a period of conflict triggered by a series of protests. While the popular press covered the events, little empirical work has investigated how first-hand reporting of the protests occurred and evolved over social media and how such exposure in turn impacted the demonstrations themselves. In this study we examine over 42 million tweets shared during the ...

Research on rural conflict in China suggests that village leaders are sources of trouble and obstacles to justice and that aggrieved villagers have more trust in and receive more satisfactory redress from higher-level solutions than from local solutions. In contrast to this account of ‘‘justice from above,’’ evidence presented in this article from a 2002 survey of almost 3,000 households suppor...

Scholars have paid increasing attention to the role of culture in social movements’ emergence, trajectories, and impacts. Culture is no longer conceptualized as a subjective lens through which people perceive objective structures, but rather as a key dimension of those structures. This has allowed researchers to shed new light onwhy certain areas of social life come to be contestedwhen they do,...

Labor unions have a significant impact on the economy in the United States and rest of the world. Although membership rate in unions has declined slowly over the last few decades, there were over 15 million unionized wage and salary employees in the United States alone in the year 2004 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2005). In addition, almost 13% of manufacturing employees were unionized last yea...