Date Published:
Jul 1, 2006
Abstract:
Using a rare representative sample of grassroots activists and nonactivists,
this study identifies three paths that consistently led Salvadoran
women to involvement in the FMLM guerrilla army: politicized
guerillas, reluctant guerillas, and recruited guerillas. These
mobilization paths arose from the patterned intersections of individual-level biographies, networks, and situational contexts. The
implications of these findings extend beyond studies of revolutionary
activism to analyses of microlevel mobilization in general. Activists
are heterogeneous and often follow multiple paths to the same participation
outcome. Capturing these multiple paths is imperative for
generating theoretically sound explanations of mobilization that
are also empirically effective in distinguishing activists from
nonactivists.
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