Doug McAdam (born August 31, 1951) is Professor of

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. He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books and over fifty articles, and is widely credited as one of the pioneers of the political process model in social movement analysis. He wrote one of the first books on the theory in 1982 when analyzing the U.S.

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Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency 1930-1970 Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies ...

''. His other book ''Freedom Summer'' won the C. Wright Mills Award in 1990. He served as the director of the prestigious Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences between 2001 and 2005. He was elected to the

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in 2003.

Works

* McAdam, D. & Karina Kloos. 2014. ''Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America.'' New York: Oxford University Press. * McAdam, D. & Fligstein, N. (2012). A Theory of Fields * Gerald Davis, Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott, and Mayer N. Zald (eds.), 2005. ''Social Movements and Organizations'', New York: Cambridge University Press. * Mario Diani and Doug McAdam (eds.), 2003. ''Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action'', Oxford: Oxford University Press. * ''Dynamics of Contention''. 2001. Cambridge University Press (with Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly). * ''Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970'', (2nd Edition), 1999. University of Chicago Press. * ''Freedom Summer'', 1988, Oxford University Press. * McAdam, D. (1982). Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970. 346p.

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