By Murray Edelman
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In short, the perception that social support for the established order was decaying and that power could be seized was a necessary condition for genuine revolt, an observation that supports the generalization that social support is a more critical variable than organization. 10 11 Further insight into the dynamics of protest, cooptation, and revolt is gained from examination of other cases in which the protesting group has been unorganized or very loosely organized and of cases in which support for the established order is ambivalent.
It notes that the precipitating incident is typically trivial and the response to it out of all proportion in its scale of violence. Approximately 4 0 percent of the triggering incidents in the riots the Commission examined involved "allegedly abusive or discriminatory police actions," about 17 percent harassment or violence by whites against blacks, and about 22 percent black demonstrations or protest meetings. A wave of riots occurred 13 Erik Erikson, Young Man Luther (New York: Norton, 1958), pp.
M a n y years of discussing RussianAmerican strategy after World War II has gradually led to increased perception of Russians as essentially engaged in the same game as we, and therefore more like us. T o put it another way, we have come in some degree to perceive Russians and Russian policymakers as complex people subject to some of the same crosspressures and interests as we, rather than perceiving them as embodiments of the malevolent conspiracy myth. Recent developments in race relations in America have thus far exemplified a different pattern or, on an optimistic assumption, an early stage of the same pattern.