Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement

by Dennis Chong

Book Overview

Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement is a theoretical study of the dynamics of public-spirited collective action as well as a substantial study of the American civil rights movement and the local and national politics that surrounded it. In this major historical application of rational choice theory to a social movement, Dennis Chong reexamines the problem of organizing collective action by focusing on the social, psychological, and moral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226104419
• ISBN13: 9780226104416
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"