This book, first published in 2003, is about how social protest movements become involved with political parties and elections.

Part I. States and Social Movements: 1. Countermovements, the state, and the intensity of racial contention in the American south Joseph Luders; 2. State vs. social movement: FBI counterintelligence against the new left David Cunningham; 3. Setting the state's agenda: church-based community organizations in American urban politics Heidi J. Swarts; 4. State pacts, elites, and social movements in Mexico's transition to democracy Jorge Cadena-Roa; Part II. Parties and Social Movements: 5. Parties out of movements: party emergence in post-communist Eastern Europe John K. Glenn; 6. From movement to party to government: why social policies in Kerala and West Bengal are so different; 7. Parties, movements, and constituencies in categorizing race: state-level outcomes of multiracial category legislation Kim Williams; 8. Protest cycles and party politics: the effects of elite allies and antagonists on student protest in the United States, 1930¿90.