In the debate on authoritarian resilience, the importance of persuasion to regime legitimacy has been widely acknowledged, yet a conceptual framework explaining the role of persuasion is still lacking. Against this backdrop, we argue that the framing perspective (Benford and Snow 2000) provides...

"Communists and Community chronicles labor activism and community organizing sponsored by the Communist Party in Detroit from 1942 to 1956, to investigate the changing nature of community-based activism in the twentieth century."