Doug McAdam

Doug McAdam (born August 31, 1951) is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He did early work on the political process model in social movement analysis. He wrote a book on the theory in 1982 when analyzing the U.S. Civil Rights Movement: ''Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency 1930-1970''. His other book ''Freedom Summer'' won the C. Wright Mills Award in 1990. He was the director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences between 2001 and 2005. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. Provided by Wikipedia