Selected Publications (Articles and Book Chapters)

• Almeida, Paul D. 2019. Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2019. “The Role of Threat in Collective Action.” Pp. 43-62 in D. Snow, S. Soule, H. Kriesi, and H. McCammon, eds., Wiley- Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. Oxford: Blackwell. 2nd Ed.
• Almeida, Paul D. and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 2018. “Globalization and Social Movements.” Annual Review of Sociology 44: 189-211.
• Mora, Maria de Jesus, Rodolfo Rodriguez, Alejandro Zermeño, and Paul Almeida. 2018. “Immigrant Rights and Social Movements.” Sociology Compass 12(8):1-20.
• Inclán, María and Paul Almeida. 2017. “Ritual Demonstrations versus Reactive Protests in Mexico City: Protest Participation across Mobilizing Contexts.” Latin American Politics and Society 59(4): 47-74.
• Mora, Maria de Jesus, Alejandro Zermeño, Rodolfo Rodriguez, and Paul Almeida. 2017. “Exclusión y movimientos sociales en los Estados Unidos.” Pp. 641-669 en P. Almeida and A. Cordero. Eds.,  Movimientos Sociales en América Latina: Perspectivas, Tendencias y Casos. Buenos Aires: CLACSO.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2016. “Social Movements and Economic Development.” Pp. 528-550 in Greg Hooks, Paul Almeida, David Brown, Sam Cohn, Sara Curran, Rebecca Emigh, Ho-fung Hung, Andrew K. Jorgenson , Richard Lachmann, Linda Lobao, and Valentine Moghadam eds., The Sociology of Development Handbook. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Almeida, Paul and Allen Cordero. 2015. “Social Movements across Latin America.” Pp. 3-10 in P. Almeida and A. Cordero. Eds. Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America. New York: Springer.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2015. “The Role of Threats in Popular Mobilization in Central America.” Pp. 105-126 in Federico M. Rossi and Marisa von Bülow, eds., Social Movement Dynamics: New Perspectives on Theory and Research from Latin America. London: Ashgate.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2015. “Unintended Consequences of State-Led Development: A Theory of Mobilized Opposition to Neoliberalism.” Sociology of Development 1(2): 259-276.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2015. “Neoliberal Forms of Capital and the Rise of Social Movement Partysim in Central America.”  Journal of World Systems Research 21(1): 8-24.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2015. “Democratization and the Revitalization of  Popular Movements in Central America.” Pp. 166-185 in B. Klandermans and C. van Stralen, eds., Social Movements in Times of Democratic Transition. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2014. “Cycles of Protest.” Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Almeida, Paul D. and Nella Van Dyke. 2014. “Social Movement Partyism and the Rapid Mobilization of the Tea Party.” Pp. 55-72 in D. Meyer and N. Van Dyke, eds., Understanding the Tea Party Movement. London: Ashgate.
• Inclán, María, Paul D. Almeida, and Guillermo Gómez. 2013. “¡Con las manos en la protesta! Un estudio comparativo de motivaciones, contextos y dinámicas de movilización en la Ciudad de México.” Working Paper No. 258. Mexico City: CIDE.
• Inclán, María and Paul Almeida. 2013. “Indigenous Peoples and Revolutionary Movements in Mesoamerica.” In D. L. Van Cott, A. Lucero, and T. Dale eds., Oxford Handbook of Indigenous People’s Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Almeida, Paul. 2013. “War and Social Movements.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, eds, David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2012. “Subnational Opposition to Globalization.” Social Forces 90(4): 1051-1072.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2011. “Movimientos populares y elecciones en El Salvador, 1990-2009.” Pp.285-293 in Eduardo Rey Tristán y Pilar Cagiao Vila, eds., Conflicto, memoria y pasados traumáticos: El Salvador contemporáneo. Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Editores.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2010. “El Salvador: Elecciones y Movimientos Sociales.” Revista de Ciencia Política 30(2): 319-334
• Almeida, Paul D. 2010. “Social Movement Partyism: Collective Action and Political Parties.” Pp. 170-196 in N. Van Dyke and H. McCammon, eds,. Strategic Alliances: New Studies of Social Movement Coalitions. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2010. “Globalization and Collective Action.” Pp. 305-326 in Kevin Leicht and J. Craig Jenkins, eds., Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective. New York: Springer.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2009. “Social Movements, Political Parties, and Electoral Triumph in El Salvador.”NACLA Report on the Americas 42(6): 16-21.
• Almeida, Paul D. and Roxana Delgado. 2008. “Gendered Networks and Health Care Privatization.”Advances in Medical Sociology 10: 273-299.
• Wood, Lesley, Paul D. Almeida and Benita Roth. 2008. Teaching Social Movements: Syllabi, Assignments and Other Resources. Washington D.C.: American Sociological Association.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2008. “The Sequencing of Success: Organizing Templates and Neoliberal Policy Outcomes.”Mobilization 13(2): 165-187.
• Almeida, Paul D. and Erica Walker. 2007. “El Avance de la Globalización Neoliberal: Una Comparación de Tres Campañas de Movimientos Populares en Centroamérica.” Revista Centroamericana de Ciencias Sociales 4(1): 51-76.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2007. “Defensive Mobilization: Popular Movements against Economic Adjustment Policies in Latin America.” Latin American Perspectives 34(3): 123-139.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2007. “Organizational Expansion, Liberalization Reversals and Radicalized Collective Action.” Research in Political Sociology 15: 57-99.
• Almeida, Paul D. and Hank Johnston. 2006. “Neoliberal Globalization and Popular Movements in Latin America.” Pp. 3-18 in H. Johnston and P. Almeida, eds, Latin American Social Movements: Globalization, Democratization, and Transnational Networks. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 
• Almeida, Paul D. 2006. “Social Movement Unionism, Social Movement Partyism, and Policy Outcomes.” Pp. 57-73 in H. Johnston and P. Almeida, eds, Latin American Social Movements: Globalization, Democratization, and Transnational Networks. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2005. “Multi-Sectoral Coalitions and Popular Movement Participation.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 26: 67-102.
• Stearns, Linda Brewster and Paul D. Almeida. 2004. “The Formation of State Actor-Social Movement Coalitions and Favorable Policy Outcomes.” Social Problems 51(4): 478-504. (Reprinted in Fiona Yap, ed. Comparative Politics. New York: McGraw Hill, 2011).
• Almeida, Paul D. and Mark I. Lichbach. 2003. “To the Internet, from the Internet: Comparative Media Coverage of Transnational Protest.” Mobilization 8(3): 249-272 (October).
• Almeida, Paul D. 2003. “Opportunity Organizations and Threat Induced Contention: Protest Waves in Authoritarian Settings.” American Journal of Sociology 109(2): 345-400. (Reprinted in Doug McAdam and David Snow, eds. Social Movements: Readings on Their Emergence, Mobilization, Dynamics and Impact. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
• Almeida, Paul D. 2002. “Los Movimientos Populares contra las Políticas de Austeridad Económica en América Latina entre 1996 y 2001.” Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades 86 (Marzo-Abril): 177-189.
• Almeida, Paul D. 1998. “The Network for Environmental and Economic Justice in the Southwest,” Pp. 159-187 in D. Faber (ed.) The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States. New York: Guilford.
• Almeida, Paul D. and Linda Brewster Stearns. 1998. “Political Opportunities and Local Grassroots Environmental Movements.” Social Problems 45(1): 37-60.

Books

• Almeida, Paul D. 2019. Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Almeida, Paul D. and Allen Cordero. Eds. 2017. Movimientos Sociales en América Latina: Perspectivas, Tendencias y Casos. Buenos Aires: CLACSO.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2016. Neoliberalismo y Movimientos Populares en Centroamérica. San Salvador: UCA Editores.
• Hooks, Greg (lead editor); Paul Almeida, David Brown, Sam Cohn, Sara Curran, Rebecca Emigh, Ho-fung Hung, Andrew K. Jorgenson , Richard Lachmann, Linda Lobao, and Valentine Moghadam (associate editors). 2016. The Sociology of Development Handbook. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Almeida, Paul D. and Allen Cordero. Eds. 2015. Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America. New York: Springer.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2014. Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Almeida, Paul D. 2011. Olas de Movilización Popular: Movimientos Sociales en El Salvador, 1925-2010. San Salvador: UCA Editores (504 p.) – updated and Spanish language edition of Waves of Protest.     (Reseña del libro #1)   (Reseña del libro #2)   (Reseña del libro #3)     Podcast
• Almeida, Paul D. 2008. Waves of Protest: Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925-2005. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Johnston, Hank and Paul D. Almeida. (eds). 2006. Latin American Social Movements: Globalization, Democratization, and Transnational Networks. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Blogs:

• Almeida, Paul. 2019. “Encroaching Threats and Twenty-First Century Social Movements.” University of California Press Website, February, 2019.
• Almeida, Paul. 2014. “Mobilizing Democracy: from Dictatorship to Neoliberalism.” (Johns Hopkins University Press Website, August, 2014).

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