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Collective protest: A critique of resource mobilization theory

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To appear in Aldon Morris and Carol Mueller, editors,Frontiers of Social Movement Theory, New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming. Used by permission of Yale University Press and the editors.

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Piven, F.F., Cloward, R.A. Collective protest: A critique of resource mobilization theory. Int J Polit Cult Soc 4, 435–458 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01390151

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