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Protesting Culture and Economics in Western Europe: New Cleavages in Left and Right Politics

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Description for Protesting Culture and Economics in Western Europe: New Cleavages in Left and Right Politics Paperback. Series: Social Movements, Protest and Contention. Num Pages: 256 pages, 31 black & white illustrations, 18 tables. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.

In this far-reaching work, Swen Hutter demonstrates the usefulness of studying both electoral politics and protest politics to better understand the impacts of globalization. Hutter integrates research on cleavage politics and populist parties in Western Europe with research on social movements. He shows how major new cleavages restructured protest politics over a thirty-year period, from the 1970s through the 1990s. This major study brings back the concept of cleavages to social movement studies and connects the field with contemporary research on populism, electoral behavior, and party politics.

Hutter’s work extends the landmark 1995 New Social Movements in Western Europe, the book ... Read more

Protesting Culture and Economics in Western Europe makes productive empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions to the study of social movements and comparative politics. Empirically, it employs a new approach, along with new data, to explain changes in European politics over several decades. Methodologically, it makes rigorous yet creative use of diverse datasets in innovative ways, particularly across national borders. And theoretically, it makes a strong claim for considering the distinctive politics of protest across various issue domains as it investigates the asymmetrical politics of protest from left and right.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Social Movements, Protest and Contention
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816691203
SKU
V9780816691203
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About Swen Hutter
Swen Hutter is a research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

Reviews for Protesting Culture and Economics in Western Europe: New Cleavages in Left and Right Politics
"Taking us on a fascinating journey through more than thirty years of social movement mobilization, Protesting Culture and Economics in Western Europe offers the first systematic attempt to link the study of the movements of the left and right in Europe since the 1970s with party system dynamics. Building on a unique set of data that allows for the comparison ... Read more

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