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Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements
Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of represent...
This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While most studies of social movements focus on single - nati...
A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Germany
This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While most studies of social movements focus on single-nation...
Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place ...
This volume compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing, right-wing, ethnonationalist and religious fundamentalist....
Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption
Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies in w...
Comparing 1989 and 2011
Strangely enough, while the pictures used to illustrate the most recent wave of protests for democracy in North Africa represent mass protest, researc...
Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democra...
An Introduction
A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action โ covers a broad range of approaches ...
The ascendance of austerity policies and the wave of protests they have generated have had a deep impact on the shape of contemporary politics. The st...
Comparing Social Movements in the European Periphery
This book analyses protests against the Great Recession in the European periphery. While social movements have long been considered as children of aff...
The Protests Against Anti-contagion Measures and Vaccination During the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Contentious Politics and the Quality of Democracy
Where Did the Revolution Go? considers the apparent disappearance of the large social movements that have contributed to democratization. Revived by r...
When Protests for Democratization Fail
This book investigates the origins of civil wars which emerge from failed attempts at democratization. The main aim of this volume is to develop a the...
Germany, Italy, and the United States
This volume compares the extreme right in Italy, Germany, and the United States using concepts and methods developed in social movement studies, payin...
Street Protest in Italy
Drawing interview material, together with extensive data from the authorsโ original social movement database, this book examines the development of ...
A Comparative Perspective
From Deliveroo to Amazon, digital platforms have drastically transformed the way we work. But how are these transformations being received and challen...
Cross-national and Transnational Perspectives
"Della Porta has assembled a distinguished group of scholars who have made great strides in illuminating the early phases of the movement. The book in...
Democratic Innovations from Below
The birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and mobilizations of ordinary people. Yet many feel as though they have inherited democratic i...
Progressive Social Movements during the Pandemic
Social movements have often played an important role in emergencies, mobilising in defence of those rights that they perceive as being at risk or more...
Direct Democracy in the Neoliberal Crisis
In recent years, social movements on the left have increasingly begun to make themselves felt in referendums. This has been seen throughout Europe: in...
The World Social Forum quickly became the largest political gathering in human history and continues to offer a direct challenge to the extreme inequi...
Transnational Activists and Protest Networks
When violence broke out at the demonstrations surrounding the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, the authors of this book were there. The protests proved...
Having long been a neglected issue, the policing of protest began to attract considerable attention in the 1990s, climaxing in the events in Seattle o...
The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies
The first international examination of how police respond to political protests. The way in which police handle political demonstrations is always pot...
An Institutional Approach
This book investigates the hidden order of corruption, looking at the invisible codes and mechanisms that govern and stabilize the links between corru...
Justice and Democracy in Southern Europe
The impact of legacies and memories on social movements has been paid only limited attention in what is now a sizeable literature. While there is a gr...
"Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies in ...
Debating Citizenship after the Charlie Hebdo Attacks
Among the violent acts perpetrated by radical Islamist groups in Europe, the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris has been one of those that has arguably c...
Student Movements against Neoliberal Universities
Using new research on higher education in the UK, Canada, Chile and Italy, this rigorous comparative study investigates key episodes of student protes...
Empirical Themes in the Politics and Political Economy of Corruption
Corruption undermines the market and challenges government legitimacy. Its hidden character, however, makes it troublesome to study empirically. Corru...
Student Movements Against Neoliberal Universities
This close investigation of student protests in the UK, Canada, Chile and Italy represents a comparative review of the subject. Setting the wave of de...
Research Report
Debating Citizenship After the Charlie Hebdo Attacks
"The Charlie Hebdo attacks were neither the first nor the last within a wave of political violence with religious, fundamentalist motivations that has...