Contention In Times Of Crisis

Author : Hanspeter Kriesi,Jasmine Lorenzini,Bruno Wüest,Silja Häusermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1108799701

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Contention in Times of Crisis by Hanspeter Kriesi,Jasmine Lorenzini,Bruno Wüest,Silja Häusermann Pdf

This is the first comprehensive overview of the waves of protest mobilization that spread across Europe in the wake of the Great Recession. Documenting the extent of these protests in a study covering thirty countries, including the issues they addressed and the degree to which they replicated each other, this book maps the prevalence and nature of protest across Europe, and explains the interactions between economic and political grievances that lead to protest mobilization. The authors assess a range of claims in the literature on political protest, arguing that they tend both to overstate the importance of anti-austerity sentiments and underestimate the relevance of political grievances in driving the protest. They also integrate a study of the electoral and protest arenas, revealing that electoral mass politics has been heavily influenced protest mobilization, which amplified electoral punishment at the polls.

Author : Hanspeter Kriesi,Jasmine Lorenzini,Bruno Wüest,Silja Hausermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108835114

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Contention in Times of Crisis by Hanspeter Kriesi,Jasmine Lorenzini,Bruno Wüest,Silja Hausermann Pdf

Documents the waves of protest that spread across Europe in the wake of the Great Recession.

Author : Marco Giugni,Maria T. Grasso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317177340

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Austerity and Protest by Marco Giugni,Maria T. Grasso Pdf

What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined, create a greater potential for protest? With protest movements and events such as the Indignados and the Occupy Movement receiving a great deal of attention in the media and in the popular imaginary in recent times, this path-breaking book offers a rigorously-researched, evidence-based set of chapters on the relationship between austerity and protest. In so doing, it provides a thorough overview of different theories, mechanisms, patterns and trends which will contextualize more recent developments, and provide a pivotal point of reference on the relationship between these two variables. More specifically, this book will speak to three crucial, long-standing debates in scholarship in political sociology, social movement studies, and related fields: The effects of economic hardship on protest and social movements. The role of grievances and opportunities in social movement theory. The distinction between 'old' and 'new' movements. The chapters in this book engage with these three key debates and challenge commonly held views of political sociologists and social movement scholars on all three counts, thus allowing us to advance study in the field.

Author : Donatella della Porta ,Alice Mattoni
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781910259207

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Spreading Protest by Donatella della Porta ,Alice Mattoni Pdf

Which elements do the Arab Spring, the Indignados and Occupy Wall Street have in common? How do they differ? What do they share with social movements of the past? This book discusses the recent wave of global mobilisations from an unusual angle, explaining what aspects of protests spread from one country to another, how this happened, and why diffusion occurred in certain contexts but not in others. In doing this, the book casts light on the more general mechanisms of protest diffusion in contemporary societies, explaining how mobilisations travel from one country to another and, also, from past to present times. Bridging different fields of the social sciences, and covering a broad range of empirical cases, this book develops new theoretical perspectives.

Author : Sarah Pickard,Judith Bessant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319582504

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Young People Re-Generating Politics in Times of Crises by Sarah Pickard,Judith Bessant Pdf

This book provides insight into the diverse ways young people from around the world are regenerating politics in innovative and multifaceted ways. The authors, who include academics and activists, challenge claims that young people are apolitical, apathetic and living up to the ‘me generation’ stereotype. Contributions cover a rich body of case examples of traditional and new forms of youth politics in response to situated injustices and political and socio-economic crises. Significant and optimistic, the collection presents strong evidence from across the globe that these developments are not isolated incidences, but are in fact part of a systemic, large-scale transformation leading to a regeneration of the political landscape by young people. The book is aimed at students and scholars in the fields of politics, sociology, policy studies and youth and childhood studies.

Author : Swen Hutter,Hanspeter Kriesi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108670241

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European Party Politics in Times of Crisis by Swen Hutter,Hanspeter Kriesi Pdf

This comprehensive study of party competition in Europe since 2008 aids understanding of the recent, often dramatic, changes taking place in European politics. It addresses how the multiple crises that Europe faces have affected the intensity and structure of party competition, and whether we are seeing a wave of 'critical elections' which will reshape European politics for years to come. The geographical scope of the book covers fifteen European countries, including cases from North-Western Europe (Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Switzerland), Southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain), and Central-Eastern Europe (Hungary, Latvia, Poland, and Romania). Using original data from a large-scale content analysis of mass media, and the debates among parties in election campaigns, this book provides clear graphical presentations of the results, appealing to a wide readership of students, scholars, journalists, practitioners, and the politically interested public.

Author : Stephen Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139503648

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Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership by Stephen Gill Pdf

This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from North and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership is situated historically within the classics of modern political theory and sociology, relating it to the crisis of global capitalism today. Contributors reflect on the multiple political, economic, social, ecological and ethical crises that constitute our current global predicament. The book suggests that there is an overarching condition of global organic crisis, which shapes the political and organizational responses of the dominant global leadership and of various subaltern forces. Contributors argue that to meaningfully address the challenges of the global crisis will require far more effective, inclusive and legitimate forms of global leadership and global governance than have characterized the neoliberal era.

Author : Marco Giugni,Maria Teresa Grasso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : 1315568330

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Austerity and Protest by Marco Giugni,Maria Teresa Grasso Pdf

Author : Hanspeter Kriesi,Argyrios Altiparmakis,Ábel Bojár,Ioana-Elena Oană
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009456531

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Coming to Terms with the European Refugee Crisis by Hanspeter Kriesi,Argyrios Altiparmakis,Ábel Bojár,Ioana-Elena Oană Pdf

A study of the policymaking process and its dysfunctional outcome in the EU polity during the refugee crisis.

Author : Stefanie Walter,Ari Ray,Nils Redeker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198857013

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The Politics of Bad Options by Stefanie Walter,Ari Ray,Nils Redeker Pdf

The book sheds new light on the history of the Eurozone crisis and provides crucial lessons for the way forward.

Author : Christian Lahusen,Maria T Grasso
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013290887

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Solidarity in Europe by Christian Lahusen,Maria T Grasso Pdf

This open access volume provides evidence-based knowledge on European solidarity and citizen responses in times of crisis. Does the crisis of European integration translate into a crisis of European solidarity, and if yes, what are the manifestations at the level of individual citizens? How strongly is solidarity rooted at the individual level, both in terms of attitudes and practices? And which driving factors and mechanisms contribute to the reproduction and/or corrosion of solidarity in times of crisis? Using findings from the EU Horizon 2020 funded research project "European paths to transnational solidarity at times of crisis: Conditions, forms, role-models and policy responses" (TransSOL), the books addresses these questions and provides cross-national comparisons of eight European countries - Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, and the UK. It will appeal to students, scholars and policymakers interested in the Eurocrisis, politics and sociology. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Julia Rone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000288841

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Contesting Austerity and Free Trade in the EU by Julia Rone Pdf

The book explores the diffusion of protest against austerity and free trade agreements in the wave of contention that shook the EU following the 2008 economic crisis. It discusses how protests against austerity and free trade agreements manifested a wider discontent with the constitutionalization of economic policy and the way economic decisions have been insulated from democratic debate. It also explores the differentiated politicization of these issues and the diffusion of protests across Western as well as Eastern Europe, which has often been neglected in studies of the post-crisis turmoil. Julia Rone emphasizes that far from being an automatic spontaneous process, protest diffusion is highly complex, and its success or failure can be impacted by the strategic agency and media practices of key political players involved such as bottom-up activists, as well as trade unions, political parties, NGOs, intellectuals and mainstream media. This is an important resource for media and communications students and scholars with an interest in activism, political economy, social movement studies and protest movements.

Author : Larry M. Bartels
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691244525

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Democracy Erodes from the Top by Larry M. Bartels Pdf

Why leaders, not citizens, are the driving force in Europe’s crisis of democracy An apparent explosion of support for right-wing populist parties has triggered widespread fears that liberal democracy is facing its worst crisis since the 1930s. Democracy Erodes from the Top reveals that the real crisis stems not from an increasingly populist public but from political leaders who exploit or mismanage the chronic vulnerabilities of democracy. In this provocative book, Larry Bartels dismantles the pervasive myth of a populist wave in contemporary European public opinion. While there has always been a substantial reservoir of populist sentiment, Europeans are no less trusting of their politicians and parliaments than they were two decades ago, no less enthusiastic about European integration, and no less satisfied with the workings of democracy. Anti-immigrant sentiment has waned. Electoral support for right-wing populist parties has increased only modestly, reflecting the idiosyncratic successes of populist entrepreneurs, the failures of mainstream parties, and media hype. Europe’s most sobering examples of democratic backsliding—in Hungary and Poland—occurred not because voters wanted authoritarianism but because conventional conservative parties, once elected, seized opportunities to entrench themselves in power. By demonstrating the inadequacy of conventional bottom-up interpretations of Europe’s political crisis, Democracy Erodes from the Top turns our understanding of democratic politics upside down.

Author : Lorna Fox O'Mahony,Marc L. Roark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108487740

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Squatting and the State by Lorna Fox O'Mahony,Marc L. Roark Pdf

This book offers a fresh theoretical approach and methodology for tackling the most pressing property problems of our time.

Author : Manlio Cinalli,Hans-Jörg Trenz,Verena Brändle,Olga Eisele,Christian Lahusen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000370447

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Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe by Manlio Cinalli,Hans-Jörg Trenz,Verena Brändle,Olga Eisele,Christian Lahusen Pdf

This book examines the ‘European refugee crisis’, offering an in-depth comparative analysis of how public attitudes towards refugees and humanitarian dispositions are shaped by political news coverage. An international team of authors address the role of the media in contesting solidarity towards refugees from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on the public sphere, the book follows the assumption that solidarity is a social value, political concept and legal principle that is discursively constructed in public contentions. The analysis refers systematically and comparatively to eight European countries, namely, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Treatment of data is also original in the way it deals with variations of public spheres by combining a news media claims-making analysis with a social media reception analysis. In particular, the book highlights the prominent role of the mass media in shaping national and transnational solidarity, while exploring the readiness of the mass media to extend thick conceptions of solidarity to non-members. It proposes a research design for the comparative analysis of online news reception and considers the innovative potential of this method in relation to established public opinion research. The book is of particular interest for scholars who are interested in the fields of European solidarity, migration and refugees, contentious politics, while providing an approach that talks to scholars of journalism and political communication studies, as well as digital journalism and online news reception. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.