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Contentious Europeans
Protest and Politics in an Integrating Europe
Doug Imig (Author) , Sidney Tarrow (Author) , Evelyn Bush (Contributor) , Virginie Guiraudon (Contributor) , Barbara Helfferisch (Contributor) , Vera Kettnaker (Contributor) ,
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Contentious Europeans
Protest and Politics in an Integrating Europe
Doug Imig (Author) , Sidney Tarrow (Author) , Evelyn Bush (Contributor) , Virginie Guiraudon (Contributor) , Barbara Helfferisch (Contributor) , Vera Kettnaker (Contributor) ,
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Is the process of European integration shifting the targets of social movements from the national arena to the European Union level? Does the EU remain isolated from the reach of national democratic politics? Or are social movements responding to the transnational issues posed by the European Union, but continuing to do so by treading the traditional pathways of nation-specific contentious politics?
Addressing these key but hitherto unexplored questions, this groundbreaking volume explores how European citizens are responding to the growing policymaking power of the EU. The contributors argue that the emergence of a supranational realm of European government offers new opportunities and constraints for domestic social actors. In this new transnational realm, groups such as environmentalists, students, and trade unionists can not only undertake traditional domestic forms of contentious action, but also link together across national borders. At the same time, the volume cautions against rushing to herald a new era of transnational mobilization, as significant barriers remain to launching contentious action in the transnational realm, national governments continue to play a primary role in policymaking before the EU, and tried-and-true routines of collective action and institutions attach citizens to their national political systems.
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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Studying Contention in an Emerging Polity
Chapter 3 Mapping the Europeanization of Contention: Evidence from a Quantitative Data Analysis
Part 4 Part II: European Policies and National Responses
Chapter 5 Trade Union Organizing at the European Level: The Dilemma of Borrowed Resources
Chapter 6 Framing Contention: Dutch and Spanish Farmers Confront the EU
Chapter 7 European Farmers and Their Protests
Part 8 Part III: Lobbies or Movements?
Chapter 9 Lobbying or Protest? Strategies to Influence EU Environmental Policies
Chapter 10 Multilevel Action Coordination in European Contentious Politics: The European Women's Lobby
Chapter 11 Weak Weapons of the Weak? Transnational Mobilization around Migration
Part 12 Part IV: The Formation of European Actors
Chapter 13 Media Construction in the Dynamics of Euro-protest
Chapter 14 The European Conflict over Genetically-Engineered Crops, 1995-97
Part 15 Part V: Comparisons and Conclusions
Chapter 16 Contentious Politics in a Composite Polity
Product details
| Published | 17 Jul 2001 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9780742500846 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Dimensions | 227 x 155 mm |
| Series | Governance in Europe Series |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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