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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
Volume 114, Issue 1, Pages 35-76Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/588737
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Analysts have shown increased interest in how social movements use tactical repertoires strategically. While the state is most often the guarantor of new benefits, many movements-from labor to the environmental movement-target corporate, educational, and other institutions. Employing a unique data set of protests reported in the New York Times (1960-90), this research examines how repertoires are, in part, contingent on the institutional target a movement selects. In particular, the authors consider the role of each target's vulnerabilities and its capacities for response-repression, facilitation, and routinization-as explanations for the degree of transgressive protest each target faces. The results provide strong evidence for considering targets as a central factor in shaping forms of social protest.
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