Political opportunity theory has proven extremely generative, highlighting the importance of
macro-structural shifts in making established authorities vulnerable to insurgent challenge …

Introduction The crisis of the welfare state 11 Welfare state reform and emotions 15 Focus on
the Netherlands 17 Dutch long-term care reform: two sides, one story 18 For money: the …

Estonia is broadly recognised as an example of fast societal transformation while ensuring
effective control of corruption after the Soviet regime collapsed. 2 In the last decade, rapidly …

This article examines how Dutch citizens with long-term care needs have used existing legal
opportunities to respond to cuts in publicly financed care. Unexpectedly, most did not make …

This article puts forward an interactionist discourse approach for studying the course of local
political protest. We argue that how local policy-makers engage with the (anticipated) …

In this chapter we ask when and why religious groups become political players, by analyzing
the involvement of Catholic and Evangelical churches in the Nicaraguan “pro-life” …

How humans perceive health risks changes over time, differs between places and is often
mediated by politics and policy. Using an international comparative approach …

Studies of social movements have often focused on the role of the state vis-à-vis social
movements—in recent times using the concept of political opportunity structure to …

This paper uses multi-level longitudinal mixed-methods to map changes in citizens'
experiences of technological risks and asks if these are influenced by risk governance. We …

A case study in the sociology of ideas, this article refines the theory of 'discursive
opportunities' to examine how intellectual claims cross national and linguistic boundaries to …