This article explores the link between the ritualization of public protest and movement
persistence in the context of contemporary far-right politics. Drawing from interpretive …

Policy reformers often make bold promises to improve government responsiveness to citizen
demands. Yet such proclaimed openings from above often fall short, get diverted, or are …

Given the growing interest in how collective action matters, this special issue seeks to push
our understanding of collective action outcomes beyond the present state of knowledge and …

As the third-largest exporting country in the world, Germany is a clear beneficiary and
proponent of free trade. Few, therefore, expected the magnitude of contention that emerged …

Recent trends in the sociology of social movements have highlighted how strategic players
engage one another in structured but open-ended arenas, as well as switching among …

The article proposes the theoretical category of data arenas as a relational field for strategic
actors in diverse areas of the contentious politics of data (Beraldo and Milan, 2019). The …

An interactive approach to social movements highlights time dynamics in ways more
correlational approaches do not, in that interaction and outcomes unfold in sequences as …

Civil society organizations increasingly rely on digital technologies to intervene in the
whistleblowing process and advance their anti-corruption goals. However, scholars have yet …

This article studies the strategic considerations behind far-right movement-partyism in the
context of 'new'issues such as Russia's war against Ukraine. The question of military support …

Within five years of its launch, Participatory Budgeting in New York City (PBNYC) spread
from four to thirty-one of New York's fifty-one council districts, enabling city residents to …