Browsing Sociology by Author "Edwards, Bob, 1958-"
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PROTESTING THE POLICE: HOW SITUATIONAL THREATS ELICIT POLICE REPRESSION AT PROTEST EVENTS TARGETING THE POLICE.
Horne, Gabrielle Maria (East Carolina University, 2022-05-13)Protests challenging the police pose a significant reputational threat to law enforcement. The threat hypothesis states that police repression is motivated by the desire to maintain social control, and when threats arise, ... -
RESOURCE MOBILIZATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL MORTALITY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT, 2003-2009
Kim, Hyun Woo (East Carolina University, 2012)Professionalization is pointed out as one of the most salient trends that contemporary advocacy groups have experienced. The previous literature has focused largely on descriptive characteristics of professionalization of ... -
Which Resources Matter? : Resources And The Impact Of North Carolina Environmental Organizations
Saville, Anne (East Carolina University, 2015)This paper focuses on the role that resources have in predicting the impact of an environmental organizations. This study contributes to an emerging stream of research literature on social movements that explicitly uses ...