Della Porta: 24 books
The Social Movement Society
Contentious Politics for a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1997
Is there more social protest now than there was prior to the movement politics of the 1960s, and if so, does it result in a distinctly less civil society throughout the world? If everybody protests, what does protest mean in advanced industrial societies? This volume brings together scholars from...
Late Neoliberalism and its Discontents in the Economic Crisis
Comparing Social Movements in the European Periphery
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
This book analyses protests against the Great Recession in the European periphery. While social movements have long been considered as children of affluent times - or at least of times of opening opportunities - these protests defy such expectations, developing instead in moments of diminishing opportunities...
by Donatella della Porta, Manuela Caiani
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
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 pressure on? Do they provide a critical capital, necessary for the political structuring of the EU, or do they disrupt the process of EU integration?...
Corrupt Exchanges
Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies in which the value system favored tacit patrimony and clientelism. Recently, however, the thesis of an inverse correlation between corruption and economic...
The Hidden Order of Corruption
An Institutional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
When corruption is exposed, unknown aspects are revealed which allow us to better understand its structures and informal norms. This book investigates the hidden order of corruption, looking at the invisible codes and mechanisms that govern and stabilize the links between corrupters and corruptees....
Social Movements and Civil War
When Protests for Democratization Fail
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
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 theoretical explanation of the conditions under which and the mechanisms through which social movements’ struggles for democracy end up in civil...
Where Did the Revolution Go?
Contentious Politics and the Quality of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Where Did the Revolution Go? considers the apparent disappearance of the large social movements that have contributed to democratization. Revived by recent events of the Arab Spring, this question is once again paramount. Is the disappearance real, given the focus of mass media and scholarship on...
by Donatella della Porta, Joseba Fernández, Hara Kouki
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The ascendance of austerity policies and the protests they have generated have had a deep impact on the shape of contemporary politics. The stunning electoral successes of SYRIZA in Greece, Podemos in Spain and the Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) in Italy, alongside the quest for a more radical left in countries...
Social movements and referendums from below
Direct democracy in the neoliberal crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Over recent years, social movements formed in response to European neoliberal austerity measures have played an increasingly important role in referendums. This is the first book to bridge the gap between social movement studies and research on direct democracy. It draws on social movement theory...
Polizia e protesta
L'ordine pubblico dalla Liberazione ai "no global"
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2013
La questione dei rapporti tra ordine pubblico e libertà di manifestazione pubblica del dissenso, delicatissima per gli equilibri interni di un sistema democratico, è paradossalmente poco studiata, specie in Italia. In questo volume viene proposta, per la prima volta nel nostro paese, un'analisi che...
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