Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action

This book brings together contributors across the disciplines to examine the local, national, regional and global processes that have shaped Maghribi societies, economies and politics since the colonial period.

Throughout the 1970s the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) initiated an anarchic campaign that permanently changed the face of Britain.

In 2016, the world looked on as thousands set up camp within Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the re-routing of the Dakota Access oil pipeline close to the Reservation's northern border.

This book, first published in 1920, is an analysis of socialist trends and a synthesis of proletarian aims.

Using original, difficult-to-gather survey data, Zeira advances a new theory of participation in anti-regime protest that focuses on the mobilizing role of state institutions.

The world is increasingly becoming less democratic and this trend has not left Southeast Europe untouched.

This book examines a dramatic rise of nonviolent youth movements on the eve of national elections in Eastern Europe.

Building on a comprehensive theoretical framework that draws on discursive and ideational approaches to populism, this volume offers a comparative mapping of the Populist Radical Left in contemporary Europe.

This book is an interdisciplinary study of struggles for indigenous self-determination and the recognition of indigenous' territorial rights in Latin America.

Focusing on the moment when social unrest takes hold of a populace, Law and Disorder offers a new account of sovereignty with an affective theory of public order and protest.

This is the first systematic study of Black–Latino intergroup relations at the national level of United States politics.

The Confederation Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers.

Since the end of the Cold War there have been a number of cases where the democratization process has been turbulent, or even violent.

This book sheds light on the outcomes of social movements in Brazil.

Crime and gentrification are hot button issues that easily polarize racially diverse neighborhoods.

This book brings together contributors across the disciplines to examine the local, national, regional and global processes that have shaped Maghribi societies, economies and politics since the colonial period.

This book, first published in 1970, examines the thesis that demonstrations are becoming an integral an integral part of the democratic way of life.

The edited book brings together country experts on populism, ethno-territorial politics, and party competition.

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated.

In Ireland, 2018, a constitutional ban that equated the life of a woman to the life of a fertilised embryo was overturned and abortion was finally legalised.

This book offers a unique contribution, exploring how the intersections among migrants and radical squatter's movements have evolved over past decades.

America's governing system is unique in the extent to which scientists and other outside experts participate in the policy process.

This book explores a variety of forms of radical political subjectivity.

The most up-to-date and thorough compendium of scholarship on social movements This second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements features forty original essays from the field.

This volume focusses on non-state actors and political conflicts but also attends to the broader themes of the series.

The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups is a major new volume that will help scholars assess the current state of scholarship on parties and interest groups and the directions in which it needs to move.

This book explores why new social movement tactics spread to some places and not others.

The Zapatistas of Chiapas and the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil are often celebrated as shining examples in the global struggle against neoliberalism.

"e;We started the 2011 revolution and the rest of Egypt followed,"e; say Egyptian workers with strong conviction and passion.

Football Fandom, Protest and Democracy offers an in-depth and inside approach to the socio-political history of football in Turkey, where fandom is often revered as part of the national identity, presenting the historical context for football events in the country.

Examines the Arab Spring, seen as a series counter-revolutions, rather than failed revolutions, in six Arab countries.

Adopting Argentina's popular uprisings against neoliberalism including the 2001-02 rebellion and subsequent mass protests as a case study, The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt analyzes two decades of longitudinal research (1995-2018), including World Bank and Latinobarometer household survey data, along with participant interviews, to explore why nonpolitically active middle-class citizens engage in radical protest movements, and why they eventually demobilize.

This Element is an effort to link the literatures of movements and parties using evidence from American political development.

Over the past two years, large-scale migratory movements to Europe have gained worldwide attention, and have prompted ever-greater desires to govern and control them.

Radicalization, and the terrorism that is frequently linked to it, have been subject to much study and governmental intervention.

'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Theories of Civil Violence provides both a new look at the origins of civil upheaval and a critical examination of society theory itself.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of how the parties of Lega and Rassemblement National have adjusted their ideologies over a four-decade period to adapt to the new transnational cleavage in Western Europe - the conflict between pro-EU and anti-EU sentiments.

This book, first published in 1989, is an analysis of what changed in 1789 with the French Revolution and what contemporary life owes to the event.

This book celebrates and seeks to understand the overlooked appearances of hybrid forms in visual culture; artefacts and practices that meld or interweave incongruous elements in innovative ways.

The western economic and financial crisis began with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and led the European Union countries into recession.

What are the possibilities for a radical politics of universal humanity, at a time when the politics of identity increasingly defines the agenda of the left?

An innovative and comprehensive exploration of revolutions from the French Revolution of 1789 to the most recent 2011 Arab uprisings.

This text explores how to design, implement and sustain processes to meaningfully engage youth and marginalised populations in local and multilateral decision-making.

Fully revised, updated and expanded third editionLobbying is a global industry which thrives wherever democracy is established.

Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "e;political opportunities"e; as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests.

Activism on the Web examines the everyday tensions that political activists face as they come to terms with the increasingly commercialized nature of web technologies and sheds light on an important, yet under-investigated, dimension of the relationship between contemporary forms of social protest and internet technologies.