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Cet article tire parti de mes précédentes études sur la justice politique pour analyser les sources, la dynamique et les conséquences des procès politiques par rapport aux luttes entre les mouvements sociaux et leurs adversaires. Je porte une attention particulière aux expériences juridiques relatives au mouvement pour les droits civils dans le sud des États-Unis et au mouvement d'opposition à la guerre du Vietnam d'il y a deux décennies. Les dernières remarques ont trait aux implications de cette analyse pour les théories pluraliste et marxiste concernant le droit, le pouvoir et l'État.

Moderate social movement organizations (SMOs) often denounce radical SMOs for statements and actions that threaten to alienate potential sources of external support. This paper analyzes the development of such interorganizational hostility in the Southern civil rights movement over the issues of Communist participation, the Vietnam War, and black power. In demonstrating how the moderate SMOs' perceived need for external support aggravated divisions over these issues, this paper calls attention to a major source of interorganizational hostility in the movement that previous work has overlooked.

U.S. suicide rates vary across the states and are higher in the American West than in other regions. Reasons for these patterns have eluded social scientists. This research note examines whether residential stability and population density as ecological contexts for social integration help explain the patterns. Reflecting Durkheimian reasoning, results suggest that residential stability helps explain both the high Western suicide rate and state suicide rates more generally. Final remarks address the theoretical and empirical implications of the findings.

Differential participation after recruitment remains a black box in the social‐movement and voluntary‐association literatures. This paper identifies several dimensions of membership participation in a professional social‐movement organization (SMO) with a national membership and analyzes the determinants of differential involvement in these forms. In general, members' ideological beliefs, social and organizational ties, perceptions about their SMO, and communication with SMO officials all predict participation across the various forms. Our findings extend previous work on differential participation in three ways. First, we statistically isolate cultural dimensions of postrecruitment participation and, in so doing, complement recent ethnographic research. Second, our findings suggest that the distinct dimensions of external and internal participation found by Knoke (1988) in a national sample of voluntary associations may not generalize to national SMOs studied individually. Third, our results indicate that models combining ideological and microstructural factors should explain the multiple forms of participation in SMOs lacking these distinct dimensions.