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- ISBN 9780816626717
- Dimensions: 149 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 1995
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. Copublished with University College. LondonHanspeter 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.