Paradigm Warriors: Regress and Progress in the Study of Contentious Politics |
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Authors: | Tarrow Sidney |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Government, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853 |
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Abstract: | Paradigm warfare is a well-worn way of engaging in the polemics of research, but it frequently reduces paradigms to caricatures and turns complex reports of empirical research into cartoons. This is illustrated by two one-sided accounts of the Chiapas rebellion: one based on a simplistic political opportunity cartoon and the other on a foreshortened culturalist one. Reducing the many-sided (and in some ways ambiguous) approaches of the political process model to a supposedly hegemonic paradigm neglects many substantive contributions and cuts with too broad a stroke at social movements while ignoring the many-branched contributions of research and theory on contentious politics. |
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Keywords: | social movements contentious politics political opportunities repertoires of contention cycles of protest |
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