Shows how social change affects political mobilization indirectly through the restructuring of
existing power relations, comparing the impact of the ecology, gay rights, peace, and …

We present a number of concepts and hypotheses concerning the impact of the political
opportunity structure on the mobilisation pattern of new social movements in Western …

The two-party system in Spain collapsed in the aftermath of the Great Recession with the
appearance of two new parties, Podemos and Ciudadanos. How are we to understand the …

The'Western'green movement has grown rapidly in the last three decades: green ministers
are in government in several European countries, Greenpeace has millions of paying …

Green political ideas are hardly new. Xenophon, among other ancient Greeks, is alleged to
have set out the main principles of the Gaia hypothesis, on which much Green thinking is …

Class Voting in Western Europe provides a rare, systematic, longitudinal, and cross-national
study of social class and party choice in eight Western European, democratic countries …

In the past two decades, the tranquility of European electoral politics was disrupted by the
rise of new social movements and a number of smaller New Left parties. These …

Published in 1997, This book offers an up-to-date guide to the Green parties of Western
Europe as the optimism of the 1980s confronts the 'Green fatigue'of the 1990s. The …

In the turbulent years of the 1960s and 1970s, France, like other European countries and the
United States, was rocked by a new wave of social movements. The early development of a …

The Fundi‐Realo controversy in European green parties stems from unresolved ambiguities
in their ideology and strategy. The problem for the green parties is that the very areas that …