Maria Kousis, Charles Tilly

Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective, European and American specialists in economic and political processes move beyond earlier debates to look seriously, systematically, and innovatively at social change and protest, with particular attention to the influence of economic change and variation on contentious politics. The essays take up two widely recognized but much contested questions in contentious politics: how threats and opportunities faced by potential participants in joint political action affect the likelihood, character, and consequences of that action; and, how economic change and variation either a) constitute significant political threats and opportunities or b) shape responses to political threats and opportunities. The volume appeals especially to sociologists, political scientists, and students of public policy and international relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781594510748
• ISBN-10: 1594510741
• Artikelnr.: 21171974

Autorenporträt

Authored by Kousis, Maria; Tilly, Charles

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective
Maria Kousis
Charles Tilly; Part I Economic
Political
and Other Opportunity Structures; Chapter 1 Specifying the Concept of Political Opportunity Structures
Julie Berclaz
Marco Giugni; Chapter 2 Capitalist Law
Relations of Production and Exploitation
and Structured Possibilities for Contention
or Using Three Tillys to Make One Argument
Marc W. Steinberg; Chapter 3 Identity Dynamics: Motivations and Movement Mobilizations in the United States and Japan
Jeffrey Broadbent; Chapter 4 The Internet as a New Opportunity for Transnational Protest Groups
Dieter Rucht; Part II How Politics and Economics Change Opportunities; Chapter 5 Theory of Revolution from Thucydides to Tilly
Rod Aya; Chapter 6 From the Common Market to the Political Union: The Shifting Opportunity Structure of Contentious Politics in Europe
Klaus Eder; Chapter 7 The Economic Opportunities of European Union Enlargement
John K. Glenn; Chapter 8 Living Wage Laws in the United States: The Dynamics of a Growing Movement
Chris Tilly; Part III Threats
Opportunities
and Forms of Action in Changing Economies; Chapter 9 Political Opportunity and Capitalist Crisis
Richard Hogan; Chapter 10 Linking Economic and Political Opportunities in Nondemocracies
Maryjane Osa
Cristina Corduneanu-Huci; Chapter 11 State Responses as Economic and Political Threats and Opportunities in Southern European Environmental Contention
Maria Kousis; An Opportunity to Speak
Charles Tilly;