Protesting culture and economics in Western Europe : new cleavages in left and right politics / Swen Hutter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutter, Swen, 1978- author.

Series:

Social movements, protest, and contention ; Volume 41.

Social Movements, Protest and Contention ; Volume 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--Europe, Western.

Political participation.

Protest movements--Europe, Western.

Protest movements.

Conservatism--Europe, Western.

Conservatism.

Liberalism--Europe, Western.

Liberalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1970's through the 1990's. 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 par

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction: From the Libertarian Left to the Populist Right; I. Theoretical Framework and the Context of Protest Politics; 1. Globalization and the Integration-Demarcation Cleavage; 2. Protest Politics, Electoral Politics, and the Political Process Approach; 3. The Context Faced by Challengers: Institutions, Prevailing Strategies, and Cleavages; II. Empirical Analyses of Protest Politics; 4. A New Protest Wave in the Age of Globalization?; 5. Issue Divides in the Protest Arena: The Big Picture; 6. Issue Divides in the Protest Arena: The Comparative Picture

7. Different Logics at Work? The Relationship between Protest and Electoral Politics Conclusion: The Dynamics of Cleavage Politics across Political Arenas; Appendix A: The Protest Event Data and Selection Bias Tests; Appendix B: Issue Categorization; Appendix C: Salience of the Specific Issues by Decade and Country; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4165-3

OCLC:

882778584