Politics Of Social Protest

This book examines why citizens resort to the often risky and demanding strategy of using disruptive protest when other channels of political intervention appear to be available. It analyzes the relationship between protest movements and the formal political system.; This book is intended for postgraduate and undergraduate sociology and politics students on courses in political sociology, comparative politics and social movements. Also of strong interest within social psychology, social anthropology, contemporary history and social geography. Part 1 The origins of social protest: between movement and party in 19th- century French republicanism; left-right ideology and collective political action in Western germany, Israel and Peru; the new class, political identities and the social bases of political protest in eight western democracies. Part 2 The structure of political opportunities: the political opportunity structure of new social movements;opposition movements and opposition parties; left-lebertarian movements in Italy and Western Germany. Part 3 The structure of the state and movement development: the politcs pf protest and the dismantling of state socialism in Poland and Hungary; neo-corporatism and political protest in OECD countries; strategies of partisan influence - west European environmnetal groups; the success of political movements - a bargaining persective.