Hi Adam. It is version 2.1 - I only downloaded it about two hours before the above post so presuming it is correct one. I have tried importing one reference and it worked. I tried 20 (rather than the 365) and it did not work, only importing two.

I was wondering if the newspaper entries were corrupting the process, as most RIS items look like this:

TY - BOOK
AU - Albo, Greg
AU - Gindin, Sam
AU - Panitch, Leo
CY - Oakland
PB - PM Press
PY - 2010
ST - In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives
TI - In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives
ID - 389
ER -

But the first three and about 20 others (newspaper articles) looked like this:

TY - NEWS
AB - Abstract|
AD - Author Address|
AN - Accession Number|
AU - Reporter|
C1 - Column|
CA - Caption|
CN - Call Number|
CY - City|
DA - Issue Date|
DB - Name of Database|
DO - DOI|
DP - Database Provider|
ET - Edition|
KW - Keywords|
L1 - File Attachments|
L4 - Figure|
LA - Language|
LB - Label|
M1 - Start Page|
M3 - Type of Article|
N1 - Notes|
NV - Frequency|
OP - Original Publication|
PB - Publisher|
PY - Year|
RI - Reviewed Item|
RN - Research Notes|
RP - Reprint Edition|
SE - Section|
SN - ISSN
SP - Pages|
ST - Short Title|
T2 - Newspaper|
TA - Translated Author|
TI - Title|
TT - Translated Title|
UR - URL|
VL - Volume|
Y2 - Access Date|ID - 219
ER -

However removing all the newspaper article entries, and only trying to import 20, also did not solve the problem.

Thanks for your assistance - I have installed it and tried again. Importing the whole Endnote (356 items) resulted in an importation of 141 and the same error message. I then tried separating the larger ilbrary into seven separate exports, which resulted in the same error message a each time and the importation of some files.

The first import had the most files come across and it was less and less each time. All in all importing the seven smaller files results in about 80-90 come across as opposed to doing the larger single import resulting in 141.

Hello again - In the below three entries, it imports the first two fine but not the third. If I just do the first two alone there is no problem.
Kind regards
Elizabeth

TY - MGZN
AU - Tanji, Miyume
DA - August - September 2001
KW - global justice movement
PY - 2001
SP - 13-14
ST - Okinawa Screaming: Anti-Globalisation Protests in the American Empire
T2 - Arena Magazine
TI - Okinawa Screaming: Anti-Globalisation Protests in the American Empire
VL - 54
ID - 784
ER -


TY - JOUR
AU - Tarrow, Sidney
DA - December 2008
IS - 3
N1 - QUOTES

'Tilly was already seeing repertoires, not as unidirectional forms of action but as interactions within the political process, each interaction drawing on a combination of mechanisms. 'Each of these forms of action,' he wrote,

'links some concrete group of people to some other individual, group or groups. Each originates and changes as a function of continuing interaction - struggle, collaboration, competition, or some combination of them - among groups'

p.230 (Tilly quote Tilly, C (1986) The Contentious French; Four Centuries of Popular Struggle (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press)


Repertoires Tilly defined as ‘claim making routines that apply to the same claimant-object pairs: bosses and workers, peasants and landlords, rival nationalist factions, and many more’ (2008a p.14). This theatrical metaphor calls attention to the clustered, learned, yet improvisational character of people’s interactions as they make and receive each other’s claims. In his most evocative simile, Tilly wrote:

‘Claim-making resembles jazz and commedia dell’arte rather than ritual reading of scripture. Like a jazz trio or an improvising theatre group, people who participate in contentious politics normally have several pieces they can play, but not an infinity… Within that limited array, the players choose which pieces they will perform here and now, and in what order. (ibid)’

Variations in repertoires occur for three main reasons:

• First, regimes permit some performances, forbid others, and tolerate still others; that constrains actors to shy away from some performances, choose others, and innovate between the two.
• Second, the history of contention constrains people’s choices (ibid). You are more likely to call an episode revolutionary if your country has experienced one in the past than if it never experienced one.
• Third, changes in political opportunity structure encourage some actions, discourage others, and give people the opportunity to innovate on known scripts.

This model of innovation around known scripts and opportunities led Tilly to one of his more controversial claims: that ‘contentious performances change incrementally as a result of accumulating experiences and external constraints’ and not as a result of the Great Events that Sewell and others have studies (ibid., p. 5).

2008a is Tilly, C (2008) Contentious Performances (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

COMMENTARY

- however sometimes action outstrips theory
- misses the point that contradictions in social structure create a situation where people act even though their consciousness lags.
- accumulated wisdom can hold back struggle, and can be a contradiction.
PY - 2008
SP - 225-246
ST - Charles Tilly and the Practice of Contentious Politics
T2 - Social Movement Studies
TI - Charles Tilly and the Practice of Contentious Politics
VL - 7
ID - 785
ER -


TY - GOVDOC
AU - The Australian APEC Study Centre
N1 - The Australian APEC Study Centre
PB - Commonwealth of Australia
PY - 2001
TI - An Australia-US Free Trade Agreement: Issues and Implications
UR - http://www.dfat.gov.au/publications/aus_us_fta_mon/
ID - 786
ER -

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