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New Social Movements in Western Europe A Comparative Analysis Hanspeter Kriesi, Ruud Koopmans, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Marco G. Giugni |
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Explores the ecology, gay rights, peace, and women's movements in Western Europe. New social movements are defined as those that have arisen since the late sixties, and include the ecology, gay rights, peace, and women's movements. This volume provides a cross-national comparison of the development, mobilization, and impact of new social movements in four Western European nations—France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Seeking to move beyond classical theories of collective behavior, this study suggests that social change affects political mobilization indirectly through a restructuring of existing power relations. The authors of this study employ empiricial analysis to demonstrate that the mobilization of social movements is closely linked to conventional politics in the parliamentary and extraparliamentary arenas of each of the countries under discussion. "An outstanding study whose merits can hardly be overstated. Their study is a major contribution to systematic and comparative research on new social movements." —Contemporary Sociology "As a lecturer in social movements, I can only salute such a series which offers some challenging topics for debates and an overview of the most recent developments in this area." —Social Discourse Hanspeter Kriesi is professor of political science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Ruud Koopmans is a researcher at the Science Center, Berlin. Jan Willem Duyvendak is currently affiliated with the Amersterdam School for Social Reasearch. Marco G. Giugni is currently engaged in a comparative research project, financed by the Swiss national science foundation, on the impacts of social movements. 344 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 1995 Copublished with University College, London |
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