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Article: "Out of the parlors and into the streets": (1) the changing tactical repertoire of the U.S. women's suffrage movements.
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- Social Forces
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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The strategies and tactics that social movement actors engaged in are the very lifeblood of movements, and movement collective activities help define their essential nature (Ennis 1987). Yet social movement researchers, especially in recent years, have paid little attention to the social dynamics that influence movement strategies. In one of the few investigations of the forces that shape strategy choices, McAdam (1983) finds that tactical innovations in the civil rights movement came about because the movement was organizationally ready to expand its repertoire of strategic actions and because political opportunities prompted movement actors to engage in new actions.
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