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Social Movements' Emergence and Form: The Green Movement in Iran

J Haddadian, Afsaneh
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1334502194

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2012, Master of Arts (MA), Wright State University, International and Comparative Politics.
Theories of social movements suggest that ‘objective' changes in the structure of political opportunities and their interaction with mobilizing and framing mechanisms render a system vulnerable to mass protest. By examining the variables relevant to such interaction, this study seeks to account for the emergence and form of the 2009 Green Movement in Iran. This research uses the congruence method and process traces the movement adherents' activities, mainly their use of Information Communication Technologies, and investigates the so-called opposition leaders' activities and statements.The study argues that in accounting for emergence and form of the Green Movement, we need to attribute the central role to the bottom-up framing processes that gave value and meaning to the movement's goals and strategies. Political opportunity structures only appear in terms of ‘perceptual' rather than ‘objective' changes in the structure of the system. Further, the research investigates implications for other authoritarian settings and, more generally, for theories of social movements.
Laura Luehrmann, PhD (Committee Chair)
Donna Schalgheck, PhD (Committee Member)
Vaughn Shannon, PhD (Committee Member)
144 p.
Political Science
Social Movements; political opportunity structures; resource mobilization; framing processes; democracy; Green Movement; Iran; Information Communication Technologies

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  • J Haddadian, A. (2012). Social Movements' Emergence and Form: The Green Movement in Iran [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1334502194

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • J Haddadian, Afsaneh. Social Movements' Emergence and Form: The Green Movement in Iran. 2012. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1334502194.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • J Haddadian, Afsaneh. "Social Movements' Emergence and Form: The Green Movement in Iran." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1334502194

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