Strategic Alliances

Nella Van Dyke is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced.Holly J. McCammon is professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University.

• ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Social Movement Coalition FormationNella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammonPart I. Social Ties and the Development of Movement Coalitions1. The Prehistory of a Coalition: The Role of Social Ties in Win Without WarCatherine Corrigall-Brown and David S. Meyer2. Policing Capital: Armed Countermovement Coalitions against Labor in Late Nineteenth-Century Industrial CitiesLarry Isaac3. Interstate Dynamics and Transnational Social Movement Coalitions: A Comparison of Northeast and Southeast AsiaDawn WiestPart II. Movement Ideology and Coalition Formation4. Approaching Merger: The Converging Public Policy Agendas of the AFL and CIO, 1938-1955Daniel B. Cornfield and Holly J. McCammon5. "Organizing One's Own" as Good Politics: Second Wave Feminists and the Meaning of CoalitionBenita Roth6. The Strength of Weak Coalitions: Transregional Feminist Coalitions in Eastern GermanyKatja M. GuentherPart III. Broad Political Influences on Social Movement Coalitions7. Organizing across Ethnic Boundaries in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Asian American Panethnic CoalitionsDina G. Okamoto8. Social Movement Partyism: Collective Action and Oppositional Political Parties in Latin AmericaPaul Almeida9. Political Opportunity and Social Movement Coalitions: The Role of Policy Segmentation and Nonprofit Tax LawBrian Obach10. Sustained Interactions? Social Movements and Coalitions in Local SettingsMario Diani, Isobel Lindsay, and Derrick PurduePart IV. Coalitions and Combinations of Causal Factors11. Crisis as a Catalyst for Cooperation? Women's Organizing in Buenos AiresElizabeth Borland12. Sudden Mobilization: Movement Crossovers, Threats, and the Surprising Rise of the U.S. Antiwar MovementEllen Reese, Christine Petit, and David S. Meyer13. Applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Empirical Studies of Social Movement Coalition FormationHolly J. McCammon and Nella Van DykeConclusion: Research on Social Movement CoalitionsSuzanne StaggenborgContributorsIndex