The Diffusion and Adoption of Public Order Management Systems

Abstract

Contemporary analyses of the emergence and diffusion of repertoires of protest (e.g. McAdam 1983; Oberschall 1995; Tarrow 1994; Tilly 1979) have shown them to vary dramatically over time and place, partly as a result of protestors’ attempts to finesse, circumvent or offset social control efforts by agents of the state. Researchers have also identified networks and process by which elements of successful protest repertoires are diffused and adopted by movement organizers in other communities, states, regions and nations.

We know rather more about the tendency for undemocratic police methods to expand than for them to contract.

Gary Marx