The Diffusion of Riots: The Patterns of 1766, 1795, and 1801 in Devonshire

Target Choice During Extreme Events: A Discrete Spatial Choice Model of the 2011 London Riots

“…These areas are somewhat smaller than the units of analysis used in some of the previous research using the discrete choice approach (e.g., Bernasco and Nieuwbeerta, ; Clare, Fernandez, and Morgan, ) and indeed are smaller than many previous empirical studies of rioting, which often consider spatial distributions of rioting at a national level (Myers, , ; Olzak and Shanahan, ; Spilerman, , , ). Distributions at finer scales of analysis have shown the complexities inherent in the dynamics of riots and often can seem to raise more questions (e.g., Abudu Stark et al, ; Bohstedt and Williams, ); however, this approach enables us to test the consistency with which targets are chosen during rioting. The advantage of smaller sized units of analysis in the discrete choice approach is that the explanatory variables are more representative of the population and characteristics of each area…”

Social Movement Organizational Collaboration: Networks of Learning and the Diffusion of Protest Tactics, 1960–1995

“…From early work on food riots (Bohstedt and Williams 1988) and plane hijackings (Holden 1986), to the study of the spread of sit-ins (Morris 1981;Oberschall 1989;Andrews and Biggs 2006) and shanty towns (Soule 1997), to research on the cross-national transfer of tactics and frames within and across movements (e.g., McAdam and Rucht 1993;Chabot 2002;Roggeband 2010), it is clear that tactical diffusion is a topic that has long captured the imagination and attention of social movement scholars. We contribute to this literature by asserting that the transfer of protest tactics among movement organizations engaged in protest collaboration can be understood as a process of organizational learning, similar to how firms adopt new capabilities from other firms through collaborations and strategic alliances.…”

The Diffusion of Collective Violence: Infectiousness, Susceptibility, and Mass Media Networks

“…Modern variants of "contagion" notions recognize that diffusion is a rational form of inter-actor influence in which potential actors observe and evaluate the outcomes of others' behaviors and then make a decision for themselves about whether or not to adopt the behavior (Oberschall 1980(Oberschall , 1989. This variant of contagion has long been used in studies of collective behaviors including rioting (Hobsbawn and Rudé 1968;Charlesworth 1979;Bohstedt 1994;Bohstedt and Williams 1988;Myers 1997b), protest tactics (McAdam 1983;Oberschall 1989), hijacking, coups, other collective violence (Pitcher, Hamblin, and Miller 1978;Hamblin, Jacobsen, and Miller 1973), and even fads (Aguirre, Quarantelli, and Mendoza 1988).…”