Download or read book How Social Movements Die written by Christian Davenport and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that social movement death is the outgrowth of a coevolutionary dynamic whereby challengers, influenced by their understanding of what states will do to oppose them, attempt to recruit, motivate, calm, and prepare constituents while governments attempt to hinder all of these processes at the same time.