Contention in Times of Crisis
Contention in Times of Crisis
Jasmine Lorenzini, Université de Genève
Bruno Wüest, Universität Zürich
Silja Hausermann, Université de Genève
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USDThis 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.
- Provides a comprehensive overview of political protest in Europe during the Great Recession
- Shows the variation of political protest across three key regions of Europe: northwestern, southern and central-eastern Europe
- Authored by a team of leading academics in the field of European politics
Product details
August 2020Hardback
9781108835114
300 pages
150 × 235 × 25 mm
0.62kg
50 b/w illus. 34 tables
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Table of Contents
- Part I. A Study of Protest in 30 European Countries:
- 1. Introduction Hanspeter Kriesi, Silja Häusermann and Jasmine Lorenzini
- 2. Design and methods of the semi-automated protest event analysis Jasmine Lorenzini, Peter Makarov and Bruno Wüest
- 3. External validation of the protest event analysis Bruno Wüest and Jasmine Lorenzini
- Part II. Trends in Protest in the Great Recession:
- 4. Overall trends of protest in the Great Recession Hanspeter Kriesi
- 5. All quiet on the protest scene? Repertoires of contention and protest actors during the Great Recession Sophia Hunger and Jasmine Lorenzini
- 6. The return of the economy? Issue contention in the protest arena Theresa Gessler and Julia Schulte-Cloos
- Part III. Sources of Protest:
- 7. Economic grievances, political grievances and protest Hanspeter Kriesi, Chendi Wang, Silja Häusermann and Thomas Kurer
- 8. Bailouts and protest: representative democracy and policy-making in times of austerity Argyrios Altiparmakis and Jasmine Lorenzini
- 9. Diffusion of protest Bruno Wüest and Matthias Enggist
- Part IV. Interaction between Convention and Contention:
- 10. Electoral punishment and protest politics in times of crisis Björn Bremer, Swen Hutter and Hanspeter Kriesi
- 11. Are political parties recapturing the streets? A cross-regional study of party protests in the Great Recession Endre Borbath and Swen Hutter
- 12. Conclusion Hanspeter Kriesi and Bruno Wueest.
