Structural social change and the mobilizing effect of threat: Explaining levels of patriot and militia organizing in the United States

Van Dyke N, Soule SA. Structural social change and the mobilizing effect of threat: Explaining levels of patriot and militia organizing in the United States. Social Problems. 2002;49(4):497–520.

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Recent Publications

Van Dyke N, Taylor V. The Cultural Outcomes of Social Movements. In: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell Publishing; 2019.
Van Dyke N. Movement Emergence and Resource Mobilization: Organizations, Leaders, and Coalition Work. Oxford, UK: The Oxford Handbook of US Women’s Social Movement Activism; 2017. pp. 354–75.
Van Dyke N, Amos B. Social Movement Coalitions: Formation, Longevity, and Success. Sociology Compass. 2017;11(7).
Boutcher S, Jenkins C, Van Dyke N. Strain, Ethnic Competition, and Power Devaluation: White Supremacist Protest in the U.S., 1948–1997. Social Movement Studies. 2017.

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Publisher's Version
Van Dyke N, Meyer DS. Understanding the Tea Party Movement. Routledge; 2016.
Van Dyke N, Dixon M. Activist human capital: Skills acquisition and the development of commitment to social movement activism. Mobilization: An International Quarterly. 2013;18(2):197–212.

Nella Van Dyke

Professor of Sociology - School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Structural social change and the mobilizing effect of threat: Explaining levels of patriot and militia organizing in the United States