Given the focus on the challenges to representative democracy and the search for new institutions and procedures to help increase participation, this book offers empirical insights on alternative conceptions of democracy and the actors that promote them.
Given the focus on the challenges to representative democracy and the search for new institutions and procedures to help increase participation, this text offers empirical insights on alternative conceptions of democracy and the actors that promote them.
This text combines theories of resource mobilization with an analysis of the structures of political opportunity. It provides a summary of the orientations of particular movements and of the significance of differing political regimes across Europe.
4e de couv.: Since 1989 neo-nationalism has grown as a volatile political force in almost all European societies in tandem with the formation of a neoliberal European Union and wider capitalist globalizations. Focusing on working classes situated in long-run localized processes …
"European social movements have become increasingly visible in recent years, generating intense public debates. From anti-austerity and pro-democracy movements to right wing nationalist movements, these movements expose core conflicts around European democracy, identity, politic…
