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Wilkes, Rima. "How Do Group Characteristics Affect Collective Action? First Nation Politics in Canada" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA, Aug 16, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p107805_index.html>

Wilkes, R. , 2003-08-16 "How Do Group Characteristics Affect Collective Action? First Nation Politics in Canada" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p107805_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: During the last decades of the twentieth century First Nations in Canada engaged in a wave of protest activity. To date, researchers have studied this protest activity by considering each individual mobilizing First Nation as a separate case. In this paper, I use a comparative approach that considers the group characteristics of mobilizing and non-mobilizing First Nations. In doing so, this paper furthers our understanding of First Nation politics and of the relationship between collective action and group-level characteristics more generally. The data for this study were obtained from newspapers (collective action) and the Canadian Census (group demographic, socio-economic and political characteristics). Multivariate analyses reveal that at the group level, certain specific First Nation characteristics– First Nation size, language, unemployment rate and group history of political mobilization- are important. The paper concludes with a discussion of these findings in relation to First Nation collective action and with a call for greater attention to group-level characteristics.

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