PO330 Comp Politics Midterm Exam
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4 components of contentious politics - Answer✔✔1. noninstitutional
2. interest-bearing claims
3. coordinated efforts by an organization
4. governments are involved
Mechanisms; 6 examples - Answer✔✔mechanisms are events that produce the same immediate
effects over a wide range of circumstances:
1. brokerage
2. co-optation
3. diffusion
4. identity shift
5. repression
6. social appropriation
what makes a social movement distinct from other contentious politics - Answer✔✔often
nonviolent, sustained campaign in which organizations and their networks used repeated
performances to stake a claim.
as opposed to marches, rallies, public meetings, lobbying, rebellions, revolutions, civil wars, etc.
the two dimensions of political development - Answer✔✔institutionalization and
democratization
connection to contentious politics: SMs often happen in democratic places, gov't capacity is
important
democracy involves the socialization of conflict (contention)
Repertoire - Answer✔✔we can skip this
assimilative strategy - Answer✔✔1. aimed at political inputs; contentious politics within the
political structure: lobbying, petitioning
2. aimed at outputs: litigation in courts
confrontational strategy - Answer✔✔public demonstration, civil disobedience
procedural impact - Answer✔✔greater access to formal decision making
appointment of new politicians
structural impact - Answer✔✔working to modify the existing structure
green party emerges as a result of protest
substantive impact - Answer✔✔reorientation of policies or tangible differences in the affected
community
removal of nuclear power plant building
input structure - Answer✔✔open or closed
output structure - Answer✔✔strong or weak
hybrid regime + example - Answer✔✔aspects of liberalization and also authoritarianism.
ex: hong kong, limited suffrage and imposition of central gov't; highly valued rule of law and
extensive civil liberties, widely shared democratic values. national security law and national
education led to angry students and then the Umbrella Movement 2014.
means of organizational expansion: franchising - Answer✔✔symbiosis of local, independent
organizations with national name-bearing one
means of organizational expansion: social appropriation - Answer✔✔appropriate resources of
pre-existing organizations and associations not created primarily for collective action
social network + examples - Answer✔✔critical for forming bridges between social
organizations, based on trust, resources, and instrumental alliances.
ex. BLM or Umbrealla hybrid network
highly centralized Southern Christian Leadership Conference
transition pittsburgh and AA are decentralized
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