• DOI:10.2307/2095322
Corpus ID: 62832487

Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency

@article{Mcadam1983TacticalIA,
  title={Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency},
  author={D. Mcadam},
  journal={American Sociological Review},
  year={1983},
  volume={48},
  pages={735}
}

• D. Mcadam
• Published 1983
• Political Science
• American Sociological Review

The pace of black insurgency between 1955 and 1970 is analyzed as a function of an ongoing process of tactical interaction between movement forces and southern segregationists. Given a political system vulnerable to challenge and strong internal organization the main challenge confronting insurgents is a preeminently tactical one. Lacking institutionalized power, challengers must devise protest techniques that offset their powerlessness. This is referred to as a process of tactical innovation… Expand

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