In this far-reaching work, Swen Hutter demonstrates the usefulness of studying both
electoral politics and protest politics to better understand the impacts of globalization. Hutter …

Neoliberalism has shaped African development for nearly thirty years. As such, it is not an
economic'shock'or a'structural adjustment', but rather a historic shift in Africa's development …

This book offers a new and fresh approach to understanding social movements. It provides
interdisciplinary perspectives on social and cultural protest and contentious politics. It …

One of the most prominent features of the peaceful revolutions that swept Serbia, Georgia,
and Ukraine was the extraordinary upsurge of youth mobilization demanding fundamental …

This themed issue provides an international perspective on transnational processes in
digital activism and protest. Against wider claims that social movements and citizen activism …

Islamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world, constituting
a new political Islam that is global in scope and yet local in action. Emmanuel Karagiannis …

The paper addresses the question, how nation‐states as sovereign actors adopt and
implement worldwide policy models, thus creating isomorphic developmental trends, by …

Scientific and political commentators on social 'uprisings' and political engagement among
second generation immigrants in Europe often refer to quantitative indicators of structural …

Following the outbreak of the Arab Spring revolutions, Salafi parties have been established
in Egypt and Tunisia. They tend to have ultra-conservative views on social and gender …

A central theme of this book is a recognition that inequalities of access to education and the
dominance of particular forms of knowledge are enabled and sustained through a continued …