Summary

The leading peer-reviewed academic journal for research on social movements, protest and contentious politics — paywalled, so use it as a citation source for specific empirical findings (e.g. Chenoweth-style outcome studies), not a text to distill wholesale.

Body

“Mobilization: An International Quarterly” describes itself as the leading research review of social movements, protest, and contentious politics; it publishes peer-reviewed empirical and theoretical work (ISSN 1086-671X print, 1938-1514 electronic). [source: mobilization-an-international-quarterly] Its official site redirects to a subscription-gated hosting platform (mobilization.kglmeridian.com); article titles and authors are publicly listed, but full text requires a subscription or institutional access, with no open-access statement found. [source: mobilization-an-international-quarterly]

Per license: abstract-only: this source is a pointer for citing peer-reviewed findings on movement dynamics — outcome studies, tactic-effectiveness research, coalition/timing effects — not a document to paraphrase wholesale. [source: mobilization-an-international-quarterly] Any specific finding cited from this journal elsewhere in the wiki must be verified against the actual abstract/article (via institutional access or a free preprint), not assumed from this source page. [source: mobilization-an-international-quarterly]

Use it for

Finding and citing the specific peer-reviewed study behind a claim about movement tactics or outcomes, when a stronger evidentiary basis than a practitioner account is needed. [source: mobilization-an-international-quarterly] Locating the academic literature search point for a topic (search this journal’s archive, then verify the specific abstract) before making an empirical claim on a strategy or tactics page. [source: mobilization-an-international-quarterly]

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• campaigns-vs-movements
• citizen-lobbying
• civil-resistance
• coalition-building
• constructive-programme
• framing-and-narrative
• incidencia-politica
• pillars-of-support
• power-mapping
• spectrum-of-allies
• the-campaign-cycle
• the-tactic-star
• theory-of-change
• three-and-a-half-percent-rule

Open Questions

• Which specific Mobilization articles (if any) are freely accessible (e.g. via an author’s institutional repository) and could be cited/linked directly rather than as a paywalled pointer?