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Policing Protest The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies Donatella della Porta and Herbert Reiter, editors |
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$70.50 Cloth |
The way in which police handle political demonstrations is always potentially controversial. In contemporary democracies, police departments have two different, often conflicting aims: keeping the peace and defending citizens' right to protest. This collection, the only resource to examine police interventions cross-nationally, analyzes a wide array of policing styles. Focusing on Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Spain, the United States, and South Africa, the contributors look at cultures and political power to examine the methods and the consequences of policing protest. "An analytically innovative work. This is a heartening tome in the sense that it points to the increasingly democratic nature of police control of political demonstrations in Western democracies." —The Great Plains Sociologist "Della Porta and Reiter have compiled an excellent volume of public order policing studies across 'established' and 'young' western democratic states. The book provides an important, relevant and useful insight into the rationale of protest policing change and that of police policy decision-making." —The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest Contributors: Rocco De Biasi, Olivier Fillieule, Oscar Jaime-Jiménez, Fabien Jobard, Hanspeter Kriesi, Gary T. Marx, John McCarthy, Clark McPhail, Fernando Reinares, Robert Reiner, David Schweingruber, Martin Winter, Dominique Wisler. Donatella della Porta is professor of political science at the University of Florence and co-author of Globalization from Below. Herbert Reiter is a researcher in history with a grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York. 320 pages | 2 tables, 5 figures | 5 7/8 x 9 | 1998 |
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