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About Doug McAdam
- Doug McAdam (born August 31, 1951) is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University.
- He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books and over fifty articles, and is widely credited as one of the pioneers of the political process model in social movement analysis.
- He wrote one of the first books on the theory in 1982 when analyzing the U.S.
- Civil Rights Movement: Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency 1930-1970.
- His other book Freedom Summer won the C.
- Wright Mills Award in 1990.
- He served as the director of the prestigious Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences between 2001 and 2005.
- He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.
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