Contentious Politics: The Development of The Concept and Analytical Framework for Studying Political Contention and Social Movements
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The conception of contentious politics is an approach for studying political struggles and social movements. Contentious politics emphasizes the relationship between politics and movements, and the development of mechanisms and processes of political contention. These mechanisms and processes explain changes and variations of peoples’ political struggles. Even though the conception of contentious politics has extensively developed to studying social movements by social science scholars in European and American societies. In Thai academic, it has a lack of studies for this conception. Therefore, this article aims to introduce readers to understand the origin and development of contentious politics, the dynamics of ideas and analytical frameworks for analyzing contentious politics, and to present the scopes and directions of contentious politics for readers who are interested in research of political struggles and social movements in the future.
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