Abstract
Protest and protest behavior deserve more attention from political scientists. Using four theories of crowd behavior developed in sociology-transformation, predisposition, emergent norms, and purposive behavior-we investigate the antiwar protests of May 6, 1970 at Iowa State University, one of the more than 1300 campus protests responding to the invasion of Cambodia and the shooting of students at Kent State University. These events are instructive because of their variety and complexity, their transition from symbolic to intervention forms of protest, and the interactions among protest leaders and between leaders and the assembled crowds. We find purposive behavior theory as well as several taxonomic concepts recently developed in sociology particularly helpful in understanding crowd and protest leadership behavior.
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