%0 Journal Article %T Breakdown Theories of Collective Action %A Bert Useem %J - %D 1998 %R 10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.215 %X Historically, breakdown theory dominated the sociological study of collective action. In the 1970s, this theory was found to be increasingly unable to account for contemporaneous events and newly d.. %U https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.215