Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published …
This book brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities, and cultural framing and ideologies. The essays are comparative and include studies of eastern Europe, the U.S., Italy, etc.
"Populism is a widely used concept but it is rarely fully understood. For a term which appears so frequently in both popular and specialist writing, the social sciences have given it remarkably little attention. In this lively and engaging book, Paul Taggart surveys the field an…
This book intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses.
For review see: Jaap J. van Soest, in Amigoe di Curaçao, 29.V.1976, p. 13; H. Hoetink, in Revista/Review Interamerica, vol. 7, no. 4 (1977-78); p. 740-741.
For review see: Jaap J. van Soest, in Amigoe di Curaçao, 29.V.1976, p. 13; H. Hoetink, in Revista/Review Interamerica, vol. 7, no. 4 (1977-78); p. 740-741.
"Gerd Schonwalder is Senior Program Specialist for the Peacebuilding and Reconstruction Program Initiative at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
With the role of local government becoming more important as Latin American countries moved away from state-led development models in the 1980s, and with social movements helping to bring about the transition to democracy, questions arose about whether and how popular participat…
