Political Protest in Western Europe Exploring the Role of Context in
This book analyzes the individual and contextual determinants of protest politics in Western Europe. Building on different theoretical perspectives, from social movements theory to political behavior approaches, the author provides new empirical evidence
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Mario Quaranta
Political Protest in Western Europe Exploring the Role of Context in Political Action
Contributions to Political Science
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Mario Quaranta
Political Protest in Western Europe Exploring the Role of Context in Political Action
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Mario Quaranta Department of Political Science LUISS “Guido Carli” Rome, Italy
ISSN 2198-7289 ISSN 2198-7297 (electronic) Contributions to Political Science ISBN 978-3-319-22161-8 ISBN 978-3-319-22162-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22162-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015950474 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
At the beginning of this project, I realized that the literature on political protest often looked at either the characteristics of the participants, or at the contextual features that would ease or hinder the action of social movements. The study of political protest seemed, in my eyes, divided in two, non-communicating fields: that interested in the individual factors linked to the engagement of citizens in protest politics, and that interested in the characteristics of social movements and their interaction with the broader structural features of political systems. Although the two approaches have yielded very relevant insights for the understanding of contentious politics, my goal was to complement them, to investigate how contextual characteristics might be related to individual participation in protest actions, and how these contextual features might interact with the individual characteristics associated with protest. This idea became a book. Here, I argue that contextual characteristics should be taken into account to explain engagement in political protest at the ind
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