Download or read book Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity written by Abel Bojar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides researchers with a novel methodological tool to study interactions between governments, challengers, and third-party actors.
Download or read book Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity written by Abel Bojar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive data and analysis of sixty contentious episodes in twelve European countries, this book proposes a novel approach that takes a middle ground between narrative approaches and conventional protest event analysis. Looking particularly at responses to austerity policies in the aftermath of the Great Recession (2008–2015), the authors develop a rigorous conceptual framework that focuses on the interactions between three types of participants in contentious politics: governments, challengers, and third parties. This approach allows political scientists to map not only the variety of actors and actor coalitions that drove the interactions in the different episodes, but also the interplay of repression/concessions/support and of mobilization/cooperation/mediation on the part of the actors involved in the contention. The methodology used will enable researchers to answer old (and new) research questions related to political conflict in a way that is simultaneously attentive to conceptual depth and statistical rigor.
Download or read book Proletarian Lives written by Marcos E. Pérez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on multi-year ethnographic fieldwork on the Unemployed Workers' Movement in Argentina (also known as the piqueteros), Proletarian Lives provides a case study of how workers affected by job loss protect their traditional forms of life by engaging in progressive grassroots mobilization. Using life-history interviews and participant observation, the book analyzes why some activists develop a strong attachment to the movement despite initial reluctance and frequent ideological differences. Marcos Pérez argues that a key appeal of participation is the opportunity to engage in age and gender-specific practices associated with a respectable blue-collar lifestyle threatened by long-term socioeconomic decline. Through their daily involvement in the movement, older participants reconstruct the routines they associate with a golden past in which factory jobs were plentiful, younger activists develop the kind of habits they were raised to see as valuable, and all members protect communal activities undermined by the expansion of poverty and violence.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation written by Marco Giugni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation provides readers with up-to-date knowledge on the wide-ranging topics covered in this field and considers the key theoretical and methodological pluralism in the area as well the most recent developments. One of the aims of this Handbook is to bring together two research traditions from political science and sociology, bridging research in political sociology and social movement studies. Accordingly, the Handbook mainly brings together authors coming from both the politics and sociology research traditions, as well as key authors working on political participation coming also from other fields such as psychology, economics, anthropology, and geography. The volume provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of political participation in all of its varied expression; it covers a wide range of topics relating to the study of political participation, both from a theoretical and methodological perspective; it brings together the political science and political sociology tradition, on the one hand, and the social movement sociological tradition, on the other; it is sensitive to theoretical and methodological pluralism as well as the most recent developments in the field; and includes discussions combining perspectives that have traditionally been treated separately in the literature as well as discussions of current trends and future directions for research in this field"--
Download or read book Violent Resistance written by Corinna Jentzsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do communities form militias to defend themselves against violence during civil war? Using original interviews with former combatants and civilians and archival material from extensive fieldwork in Mozambique, Corinna Jentzsch's Violent Resistance explains the timing, location and process through which communities form militias. Jentzsch shows that local military stalemates characterized by ongoing violence allow civilians to form militias that fight alongside the government against rebels. Militias spread only to communities in which elites are relatively unified, preventing elites from coopting militias for private gains. Crucially, militias that build on preexisting social conventions are able to resonate with the people and empower them to regain agency over their lives. Jentzsch's innovative study brings conceptual clarity to the militia phenomenon and helps us understand how wartime civilian agency, violent resistance, and the rise of third actors beyond governments and rebels affect the dynamics of civil war, on the African continent and beyond.
Download or read book The Advantage of Disadvantage written by LaGina Gause and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advantage of Disadvantage provides insights for scholars and activists into how marginalized groups gain representation through protest. Drawing on formal theory, surveys, and quantitative data, the book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of representation, inequality, and digital activism.
Download or read book Between Mao and Gandhi written by Ches Thurber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asks why some dissident movements adopt nonviolent strategies of resistance, while others choose to take up arms.
Download or read book The Rise Fall and Influence of the Tea Party Insurgency written by Patrick Rafail and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses extensive evidence to examine the Tea Party and its impacts from its infancy, through to its decline.
Download or read book Coming to Terms with the European Refugee Crisis written by Hanspeter Kriesi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the policymaking process and its dysfunctional outcome in the EU polity during the refugee crisis.
Download or read book Populist Mobilization written by Paris Aslanidis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much of the political science literature on populism focuses on key political actors within the party system, a good deal less attention has been paid to forms of populist contention that feature ordinary citizens protesting against elite rule and championing the cause of 'the People' around the world. Populist Mobilization redresses this imbalance and presents a novel theoretical framework for the study of grassroots populist movements by integrating Laclauian discourse analysis with collective action frame theory. Aslanidis examines two widely influential movements that emerged from the protest cycle of the Great Recession: the Icelandic Pots and Pans Revolution and the Greek indignados. Drawing from semi-structured interviews with activists and an extensive analysis of the movements' paper trail and audiovisual material, he explores organizational aspects, processes of collective action framing, the construction of collective identities, and the influence of cultural elements. Additionally, the author embarks on a historical exploration of the intellectual roots of populism to dispel the pejorative connotations attached to the concept and advocates for a collaboration between sociologists and political scientists on a comprehensive research agenda for the populist phenomenon that transcends the institutional and non-institutional divide.
Download or read book Age of Austerity written by Michael Sissons and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Age of Austerity 1945 51 written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Austerity written by Alberto Alesina and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and incisive look at austerity measures that succeed—and those that don’t Fiscal austerity is hugely controversial. Opponents argue that it can trigger downward growth spirals and become self-defeating. Supporters argue that budget deficits have to be tackled aggressively at all times and at all costs. In this masterful book, three of today’s leading policy experts cut through the political noise to demonstrate that there is not one type of austerity but many. Looking at thousands of fiscal measures adopted by sixteen advanced economies since the late 1970s, Austerity assesses the relative effectiveness of tax increases and spending cuts at reducing debt. It shows that spending cuts have much smaller costs in terms of output losses than tax increases. Spending cuts can sometimes be associated with output gains in the case of expansionary austerity and are much more successful than tax increases at reducing the growth of debt. The authors also show that austerity is not necessarily the kiss of death for political careers as is often believed, and provide new insights into the recent cases of European austerity after the financial crisis. Bringing needed clarity to one of today’s most challenging subjects, Austerity charts a sensible approach based on data analysis rather than ideology.
Download or read book Age of Austerity 1945 51 written by Michael Sissons and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grievances and Public Protests written by Martín Portos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on the role that grievances play for mobilisation dynamics in a context of material deprivation. Why do people protest? To what extent do grievances account for the varying size of protest events over time? Covering different levels of analysis, the author argues that effects of socioeconomic aspects (both objective-material deprivation and subjective-attitudinal grievances) are mediated by political attitudes, especially political dissatisfaction. He develops a framework to account for the dynamics, trajectory and timing of the cycle of contention that unfolded in Spain in the shadow of the Great Recession, contributing not only to the field of social movement studies but to our broader understanding of European politics, political sociology, political economy and economic sociology.
Download or read book Political Multiplier Effects of Austerity Explaining the Contention in Different Arenas Under the Great Recession written by Chendi Wang and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the political impacts of austerity policies? This dissertation sheds light on this question by offering five independent but interrelated empirical contributions that seek to understand and explain variegated societal and political resistance and consequences to austerity policies in the wake of the global financial crisis. The first account studies the impact of austerity policy announcements in the electoral arena. The results of time series analysis show that, on average, austerity packages hurt incumbent parties in opinion polls and secondly the magnitude of this electoral punishment is contingent on the economic and political context: in instances of rising unemployment, the involvement of external creditors, and high protest intensity, the cumulative impact of austerity on government popularity becomes considerable. The second study, focusing on the protest arena, demonstrates that austerity also drives people to the streets to voice their discontent. The findings of dynamic fixed-effects models demonstrate that people reacted more vehemently to earlier austerity policies while had gradually become disillusioned and no longer mobilised against later ones. Besides, the effect is larger when austerity is accompanied by rising objective and subjective economic grievances, the involvement of external actors, and a higher level of the previous mobilisation. To further understand the why austerity leads to protest, the third study explores the relationship between austerity and economic and political grievances, as well as the joint role of the two types of grievances for the determination of the mobilisation of protest. The fourth study links the consequences of fiscal austerity on electoral and protest politics. Relying on an original dataset containing data of protest event, electoral outcomes and detailed taxation and expenditure data in 30 European countries from 2000 to 2015, the study shows that citizens dislike large deficits and government debt, but they also resist austerity and punish the government, either at polls or in the streets or both, depending on the specific composition of austerity packages and the party colour of the incumbents. For the last study, I zoom in on the interactions between the governments and their challengers in reaction to austerity proposals by examining contentious episodes that have been unleashed by the governments' austerity proposals. The results of a panel vector autoregression analysis reveal that the relationship of contentious interactions between actors and government popularity is not uni-directional but endogenous, and each plays a critical and interdependent role in the system in shaping the dynamics of the contentious policymaking process. In synthesis, the dissertation endeavours to investigate the political resistance against austerity in two important theoretical arenas. The central argument of this dissertation is that austerity does induce resistance from the citizens, both at polls and in the streets. Moreover, the magnitude of the politicalimpact of austerity depends on other economic, social and political factors.
Download or read book Age of austerity edited by m sissons and p french written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
