This is the first comprehensive overview of the waves of protest mobilization that spread
across Europe in the wake of the Great Recession. Documenting the extent of these protests …

The literature on the interplay of social movements and political parties is growing as
sociologists regain interest in political parties and political scientists pay closer attention to …

ABSTRACT In this Special Issue, we show that the study of civil society, social movements,
and protest is central for assessing the current state of German politics. First, moving beyond …

The article provides the first large-scale study of protest activities by political parties. The
empirical analysis draws on original protest event data for 30 European countries based on …

The article seeks to contribute to the conceptual and comparative debate with its focus on
political parties by approaching the topic through the logic of collective action. Starting from …

The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date
treatment of political participation in all its varied forms, investigates a wide range of topics in …

Protest event analysis is a key method to study social movements, allowing to systematically
analyze protest events over time and space. However, the manual coding of protest events …

The broad expansion of non-electoral political participation is considered one of the major
changes in the nature of democratic citizenship in the 21st century. Most scholars–but also …

Polarisation over cultural issues and the emergence of radical, often populist, challenger
parties indicate a fundamental restructuring of political conflict in Western Europe. The …

This book examines organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe
(CEE), providing incisive analyses in three critically important policy areas-healthcare …