Almeida, Paul D. 2005. “Multi-sectoral coalitions and popular movement participation.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 26:63–99.
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Abstract
The article focuses on varying protest intensities of social movement activistsin an authoritarian political environment. Drawing on a sample ofparticipants in El Salvador’s El movimiento popular, the paper examineshow structural location in the resistance movement’s multi-sectoral organizationalinfrastructure shapes the level of participation. Those motivatedby state repression and maintaining multiple or cross-sectoralorganizational ties exhibited higher levels of protest participation. Thefindings suggest that more attention be given to how the multi-sectoralnetwork structure of opposition coalitions induces micro-mobilizationprocesses of individual participation in high-risk collective action.