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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463764603321

Autore

Hutter Swen <1978->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4529-4165-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Social Movements, Protest and Contention ; ; Volume 41

Disciplina

322.4094

Soggetti

Political participation - Europe, Western

Protest movements - Europe, Western

Conservatism - Europe, Western

Liberalism - Europe, Western

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

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