Contentious Europeans : protest and politics in an emerging polity / edited by Doug Imig and Sidney Tarrow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Imig, Douglas R., 1962-

Tarrow, Sidney G.

Series:

Governance in Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--European Union countries.

Political participation.

Protest movements.

European Union countries.

Protest movements--European Union countries.

Lobbying--European Union countries.

Lobbying.

Pressure groups--European Union countries.

Pressure groups.

Physical Description:

ix, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2001]

Summary:

Exploring how social movements have been influenced by growing Europeanization and globalization, this groundbreaking work analyzes the developing efforts of European citizens to make demands upon the supranational level of European government through social movements, protest politics, and contentious political action. The authors explore the conditions under which citizens are attempting to gain voice before the EU through protest politics, as well as the reasons why a truly transnational realm of collective action has proven so elusive. At the heart of the book is a newly developed theoretical framework, which is rigorously tested against the evidence offered by the editors' longitudinal and cross-national database on contentious political action, as well as by a series of sector-specific case studies. The combination of theory and original research will make this an important reference for scholars as well as a valuable supplement in courses on comparative politics, Western Europe, and social movements.

Contents:

Part 1 Studying a Moving Target: Theory and Data on European Contention

1 Studying Contention in an Emerging Polity / Doug Imig, Sidney Tarrow 3

2 Mapping the Europeanization of Contention: Evidence from a Quantitative Data Analysis / Doug Imig, Sidney Tarrow 27

Part 2 European Policies and National Responses

3 Trade Union Organizing at the European Level: The Dilemma of Borrowed Resources / Andrew Martin, George Ross 53

4 Framing Contention: Dutch and Spanish Farmers Confront the EU / Bert Klandermans, Marga de Weerd, Jose Manuel Sabucedo, Mauro Rodriguez 77

5 European Farmers and Their Protests / Evelyn Bush, Pete Simi 97

Part 3 Lobbies or Movements?

6 Lobbying or Protest? Strategies to Influence EU Environmental Policies / Dieter Rucht 125

7 Multilevel Action Coordination in European Contentious Politics: The Case of the European Women's Lobby / Barbara Helfferich, Felix Kolb 143

8 Weak Weapons of the Weak? Transnational Mobilization around Migration in the European Union / Virginie Guiraudon 163

Part 4 The Formation of European Actors

9 Media Construction in the Dynamics of Europrotest / Pierre Lefebure, Eric Lagneau 187

10 The European Conflict over Genetically Engineered Crops, 1995-1997 / Vera Kettnaker 205

11 Contentious Politics in a Composite Polity / Sidney Tarrow 233

Appendix Building a Transnational Archive of Contentious Events / Doug Imig 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-282) and index.

ISBN:

0742500837

0742500845

OCLC:

45668846