Social Change and Collective Action in Great Britain

这项研究的重点是集体行为，检查 个人群体参与的条件 抗议、骚乱和其他形式的有争议的行动， 以确定这些问题的特征模式和共同要素， 行动 这项研究有三个主要目标。 第一 就是分析这些集体行为模式是如何以及为什么 随着时间的推移而改变。 第二是确定为什么 各类个人参与集体 行动的变化，不同的群体参与不同的 时间点。 第三个目标是评估影响 采取各种形式的集体行动， 涉及的个人。这些问题是在一个广泛的 历史背景，注意对 民族国家的集体变革行动， 经济 蒂利博士特别关注集体行动 发生在世纪后半叶的伦敦 在英国，一般在早期的一部分， 世纪。 1828年至1834年是一个特殊的时期。 这是一个政治动荡和改革时期 奠定了世纪的基础 多年 1828年至1834年之前也被抽样，以建立基础， 评估这一时期的变化。 蒂利医生会画他的 来自报纸报道的有争议的集会和使用的数据 多元回归、事件历史和网络分析 技术来分析数据，与个人聚集， 分析单位。本研究的理论和发现， 虽然历史上有固定的，同样承担重大问题， 被问及当代集体行动的形式。 分析国家和经济的作用， 鼓励或阻止这种行为可能特别 揭示了在获得更深入的了解条件， 以及引发集体行动的事件。

This research focuses on collective behavior, examining the conditions under which groups of individuals engage in protests, riots, and other forms of contentious action in order to identify characteristic patterns and common elements of such actions. The study has three principal objectives. The first is to analyze how and why these patterns of collective behavior change over time. The second is to determine why the involvement of various types of individuals in collective actions changes, with different groups engaged at different points in time. The third objective is to assess the effects of various forms of collective action on the interests of the individuals involved. These questions are addressed in a broad historical context, attending to the implications for collective action of changes in the national state and the economy. Dr. Tilly focuses specifically on collective action occurring in London during the last half of the 18th century and in Great Britain generally during the early part of the 19th century. The 1828 to 1834 period is of particular interest, since this was a time of political turmoil and reform that set the stage for the rest of the century. The years preceding 1828-1834 are also sampled to establish a basis for assessing changes up to this period. Dr. Tilly will draw his data from newspaper accounts of contentious gatherings and use multiple regression, event history and network analytic techniques to analyze the data, with individual gatherings as the units of analysis. The theory and findings of this study, though historically anchored, bear equally on major questions being asked regarding contemporary forms of collective action. The analysis of the role of the state and the economy in fostering or thwarting such behavior may be especially revealing in gaining a deeper understanding of the conditions and events precipitating collective action.