Editing Political movement (section)

== Political movement theories ==
Some of the theories behind social movements have also been applied to the emergence of political movements in specific, like the political opportunity theory and the resource mobilization theory.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":8">{{Cite book|last1=Goodwin|first1=Jeff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mnR-8PxNsTcC&q=%22political+movements%22&pg=PR7|title=Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion|last2=Jasper|first2=James M.|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2004|isbn=978-0-7425-2596-2|pages=80–81|language=en}}</ref>

=== Political opportunity theory ===
The political opportunity theory asserts that political movements occur through chance or certain opportunities and have little to do with resources, connections or grievances in society.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":8" /> Political opportunities can be created by possible changes in the political system, structure or by other developments in the political sphere and they are the driving force for political movements to be established.<ref name=":4" />

=== Resource mobilization theory ===
The resource mobilization theory states that political movements are the result of careful planning, organizing and fundraising rather than spontaneous uprisings or societal [[grievance]]s. This theory postulates that movements rely on resources and contact to the establishment in order to fully develop. Thus, at the beginning and core of a political movement there lies a strategic mobilization of individuals.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{cite book|last=Inwegen|first=Patrick Van|chapter=Non-Violence in Ireland’s Independence|year=2018|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315157344-22|title=The Routledge History of World Peace Since 1750|editor1=Christian Philip Peterson|editor2=William M. Knoblauch|editor3=Michael Loadent|pages=273–283|place=New York|publisher=Routledge|doi=10.4324/9781315157344-22|isbn=978-1-315-15734-4|s2cid=187589251|access-date=2020-10-06}}</ref>