id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt gh93gx43s76 Ana Velitchkova Cosmopolitan Priming for Change: Transnational Social Movements in Communist Eastern Europe 2010 .txt text/plain 266 10 41 My concrete research question is: What were the societal institutional environment and the political culture in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s within which protest movements could gather mass support and within which democracy could take root? Social movement scholars have argued that social movement mobilization at the micro level is a sequential multi-stage process but have ignored the first stage of this process, the creation of a pool of supporters from which movements can potentially draw participants, when analyzing the Eastern European protest wave of 1989. cache/gh93gx43s76.txt txt/gh93gx43s76.txt