The Politics of Collective Violence

摘要: Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords' property, incidents road rage, and even the events September 11? With striking historical scope command literature many disciplines, this book, first published in 2003, seeks common causes these collective violence. In violence, social interaction immediately inflicts physical damage, involves at least two perpetrators results part from coordination among persons who perform damaging acts. Professor Tilly argues that violence is complicated, changeable, unpredictable some regards, yet it also similar variously combined different times places. Pinpointing causes, combinations, settings helps to explain its variations, identify best ways mitigate create democracies with a minimum damage property.