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In agreement with many other students of social movements and related phenomena, the Goodwin–Jasper critique of political process theorizing about contentious politics rightly calls attention to the incomplete, provisional, and sometimes contradictory state of explanations in the field. However, it wrongly indicates that major analysts are unaware of these difficulties, it adopts a flawed model of explanation, and it proposes remedies that will actually hinder explanation of contentious political processes.
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Tilly, C. Wise Quacks. Sociological Forum 14, 55–61 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021636727719
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021636727719