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Ballots and barricades: on the reciprocal relationship between elections and social movements / McAdam, Doug; Tarrow, Sidney

Tarrow, Sidney	Journal Article
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2010.

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Why do two cognate literatures-social movements and electoral studies-travel along parallel paths with little conversation between them? And what can be done to connect them in the future? Drawing on their work with the late Charles Tilly on Dynamics of Contention (2001), Doug McAdam and Sidney Tarrow examine two important studies that approach (but do not effect such a linkage), propose a mechanism-based set of linkages between elections and social movements, and apply their approach in a preliminary examination of the relations between the American anti-war movement after 9/11 and the Democratic Party.

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Election ; Social Movements ; Ballots ; Barricades

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Bombs, ballots, and Coercion: the Madrid bombings, electoral politics, and terrorist strategy / Dannenbaum, Tom

Dannenbaum, Tom	Journal Article
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2011.

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In 2004, an al Qaeda affiliate killed 191 civilians in Madrid. Spain's general election three days later confounded pollsters' expectations; the incumbent Partido Popular was ousted by the challenging Partido Socialista Obrero Español ( psoe ), a party committed to withdrawal from Iraq. This manuscript examines the notion that this was a strategic terrorist success. The first strategic form considered is coercive bargaining. The paper finds that al Qaeda is not a credible coercive agent and debunks the popular myth that Spanish voters entered a coercive bargain with the network. The paper also considers the attacks through the strategic frameworks of terrorist advertising, provocation, regime destabilization, and morale building. It finds that the attacks' only strategic achievement was building morale. Finally, the paper provides a multi-factor explanation of how the Madrid bombings contributed to the psoe victory despite their lack of strategic impact. The upshot of the analysis is that there is little reason to believe such electoral impact is replicable.

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Bombs ; Spain ; Al Qaeda ; Coercion ; Terrorist Strategy ; Electoral Politics ;
Madrid Bombings ; Madrid ; Ballots

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