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Complex Dynamics Of Contention: Towards A Generative Model Of Social Dissent, Travis Holmes
Complex Dynamics Of Contention: Towards A Generative Model Of Social Dissent, Travis Holmes
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations
In 2003, McAdam et al. released their seminal work Dynamics of Contention as a challenge to scholars within the field of contentious politics. In it, they claimed that the field required a refocusing from static and topical arguments splintered into various disciplines, to a more unified research agenda in search of causal mechanisms. In the spirit of their work, this study seeks to revisit this original critique considering more recent scholarship in the fields of Complexity and Systems Sciences along with certain technological advances in the field of computational social science, namely, the Agent-Based Model (ABM). In addition, both computational …