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Contentious Political Action - Why? How and why contentious politics arises, major reasons why political violence occurs, types of revolution that have led to regime change and why they succeeded Why Men Rebel - Result of a particular type of grievance: relative deprivation - That is - men do not participate in rebellion merely because they are poor or disadvantaged in some way - They participate when they experience Relative Deprivation - Relative deprivation is the tension between your actual state, and what you feel you should have - Gurr - “perceived discrepancy between value expectations and value capabilities. - If expectations and capabilities change - leads to feeling grievance which causes protest/revolution - Political opportunity structure: - The extent to which a regime is open to influence from social movements and other institutional groups. How Contentious Politics Happens - Strategic action and repertoires - Political opportunity structures “movementization”

- Discourse and identity - New communications technology - Transnational activism Prospect Theory - People react more strongly to losses than gains and are more willing to take risks in the domain of losses - People may be willing to assume the risks if they are attempting to avoid a loss than if they are attempting to achieve a gain - Framing - Framing is signifying work or meaning construction engaged in by movement initiators and or adherents - Derives from the idea within social psychology that objects, events, and experiences do not have intrinsic meaning, but that meanings are attached to those objects, events, and experiences through processes of social construction. - Framing is “the transformation of misfortunes into injustices” - Why did this happen? - Who is responsible? - What is the remedy? - Michael Brown Shooting -

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