Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis
| By: | Grasso, Maria, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781472439185 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472439208 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined, create a greater potential for protest?
With protest movements and events such as the Indignados and the Occupy Movement receiving a great deal of attention in the media and in the popular imaginary in recent times, this path-breaking book offers a rigorously-researched, evidence-based set of chapters on the relationship between austerity and protest. In so doing, it provides a thorough overview of different theories, mechanisms, patterns and trends which will contextualize more recent developments, and provide a pivotal point of reference on the relationship between these two variables.
More specifically, this book will speak to three crucial, long-standing debates in scholarship in political sociology, social movement studies, and related fields:
The effects of economic hardship on protest and social movements.
The role of grievances and opportunities in social movement theory.
The distinction between