Contents Preface Introduction: Social Movement Coalition Formation Nella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammon Part I. Social Ties and the Development of Movement Coalitions 1. The Prehistory of a Coalition: The Role of Social Ties in Win Without War Catherine Corrigall-Brown and David S. Meyer 2. Policing Capital: Armed Countermovement Coalitions against Labor in Late Nineteenth-Century Industrial Cities Larry Isaac 3. Interstate Dynamics and Transnational Social Movement Coalitions: A Comparison of Northeast and Southeast Asia Dawn Wiest Part II. Movement Ideology and Coalition Formation 4. Approaching Merger: The Converging Public Policy Agendas of the AFL and CIO, 1938-1955 Daniel B. Cornfield and Holly J. McCammon 5. "Organizing One's Own" as Good Politics: Second Wave Feminists and the Meaning of Coalition Benita Roth 6. The Strength of Weak Coalitions: Transregional Feminist Coalitions in Eastern Germany Katja M. Guenther Part III. Broad Political Influences on Social Movement Coalitions 7. Organizing across Ethnic Boundaries in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Asian American Panethnic Coalitions Dina G. Okamoto 8. Social Movement Partyism: Collective Action and Oppositional Political Parties in Latin America Paul Almeida 9. Political Opportunity and Social Movement Coalitions: The Role of Policy Segmentation and Nonprofit Tax Law Brian Obach 10. Sustained Interactions? Social Movements and Coalitions in Local Settings Mario Diani, Isobel Lindsay, and Derrick Purdue Part IV. Coalitions and Combinations of Causal Factors 11. Crisis as a Catalyst for Cooperation? Women's Organizing in Buenos Aires Elizabeth Borland 12. Sudden Mobilization: Movement Crossovers, Threats, and the Surprising Rise of the U.S. Antiwar Movement Ellen Reese, Christine Petit, and David S. Meyer 13. Applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Empirical Studies of Social Movement Coalition Formation Holly J. McCammon and Nella Van Dyke Conclusion: Research on Social Movement Coalitions Suzanne Staggenborg Contributors Index