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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1968 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Sidney Tarrow is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and international relations. Their research spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, gender studies, law, and history.

Their academic work primarily addresses topics such as political conflict and governance, electoral systems and political participation, politics and society in Latin America, populism and right-wing movements, social policy and reform studies, race and history in American society, and gender politics and representation.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Progress outside of paradise: Old and new comparative approaches to contentious politics (2021) published in Comparative Political Studies
  • Trumpism (2022) featured in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
  • Anatomies of Revolution. By George Lawson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 296p. $74.99 cloth, $25.99 paper. (2020) in Perspectives on Politics

Sidney Tarrow has coauthored with various scholars, including Doug McAdam, Whitney K. Taylor, Emilio Lehoucq, Chan S. Suh, and Salvador Santino.

Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • Comparative Political Studies

In terms of book publications, Tarrow has several titles published by Cambridge University Press:

  • Power in Movement (2022)
  • Movements and Parties (2021)
  • Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements (2024)
  • The Phantom at The Opera (2021)

Throughout their career, Sidney Tarrow has received recognition including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1968.

Best Publications

  • Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics

    Sidney G. Tarrow

  • Dynamics of Contention

    Doug McAdam;Sidney G. Tarrow;Charles Tilly

  • Comparative perspectives on social movements : political opportunities, mobilizing structures, and cultural framings

    Dough McAdam;John D McCarthy;Mayer N Zald

  • Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action and Politics

    Sidney G. Tarrow

  • The New Transnational Activism

    Sidney G. Tarrow

  • Power in Movement

    Unknown

  • Transnational Protest and Global Activism

    Donatella Alessandra Della Porta;S. Tarrow

  • States and opportunities: The political structuring of social movements

    Unknown

  • The social movement society : contentious politics for a new century

    Steven E. Barkan;David S. Meyer;Sidney Tarrow

  • Making Social Science Work Across Space and Time: A Critical Reflection on Robert Putnam’s Making Democracy Work

    Sidney Tarrow

  • Democracy and disorder

    Sidney Tarrow

  • Democracy and disorder : protest and politics in Italy, 1965-1975

    Alan S. Zuckerman;Sidney Tarrow

  • The Strategy of Paired Comparison: Toward a Theory of Practice:

    Sidney Tarrow

  • TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS: Contention and Institutions in International Politics

    Sidney Tarrow

  • Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics

    Ronald R. Aminzade;Jack A. Goldstone;Doug McAdam;Elizabeth J. Perry

  • Making Social Science Work Across Space and Time: A Critical Reflection on Robert Putnam's <i>Making Democracy Work</i>

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  • Ballots and Barricades: On the Reciprocal Relationship between Elections and Social Movements

    Doug McAdam;Sidney Tarrow

  • Transactional and Participatory Activism in the Emerging European Polity: The Puzzle of East-Central Europe

    Tsveta Petrova;Sidney Tarrow

  • Struggle, Politics, and Reform: Collective Action, Social Movements, and Cycles of Protest

    Sidney G. Tarrow

  • To map contentious politics

    Doug McAdam;Sidney Tarrow;Charles Tilly

  • National Politics and Collective Action: Recent Theory and Research in Western Europe and the United States

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  • El poder en movimiento: Los movimientos sociales, la acción colectiva y la política

    Sidney Tarrow

  • Unwanted Children - Political Violence and the Cycle of Protest in Italy, 1966-1973

    Donatella Della Porta;Sidney Tarrow

  • Contentious Europeans : protest and politics in an emerging polity

    Douglas R. Imig;Sidney G. Tarrow

  • From Structure To Action: Comparing Social Movement Research Across Cultures

    Bert Klandermans;Hanspeter Kriesi;Sidney G. Tarrow

  • International Social Movement Research, Vol. I: From Structure to Action: Comparing Social Movement Research Across Cultures.

    John D. McCarthy;Bert Klandermans;Hanspeter Kriese;Sidney Tarrow

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly Columbia University
Doug McAdam
Doug McAdam Stanford University
Donatella Della Porta
Donatella Della Porta Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
David S. Meyer
David S. Meyer University of California, Irvine
Jack Andrew Goldstone
Jack Andrew Goldstone George Mason University
John D. McCarthy
John D. McCarthy Pennsylvania State University
Stefaan Walgrave
Stefaan Walgrave University of Antwerp
Bert Klandermans
Bert Klandermans Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
James Mahoney
James Mahoney Northwestern University
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University

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