Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity: Studying the Dynamics of Government-Challenger Interactions

ISBN-13: 9781316519011 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 352 str.

Abel Bojar; Theresa Gessler; Swen Hutter

Opis

Provides researchers with a novel methodological tool to study interactions between governments, challengers, and third-party actors.

Recenzje

'Every so often, social scientists invent new ways to measure and analyze social movements, most of which, however, have a very short half-life. But growing out of ‘protest event analysis,’ the stock-in-trade of students of contentious politics since Tilly’s innovations in the 1970s, Bojar, Gessler, Hutter, and Kriesi have produced incremental improvements that amount to a new method - ‘contentious episode analysis.’ Applied to a major comparative dataset, and combining semi-automated and intelligent human coding, their innovations promise a major innovation for the study of contentious politics.' Sidney Tarrow, Author of Power in Movement and Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development

Spis treści

Part I. A New Approach for the Analysis of Contentious Episodes: 1. Introduction: A new approach for studying political contention – contentious episode analysis Hanspeter Kriesi, Swen Hutter, Abel Bojar, Argyrios Altiparmakis, Theresa Gessler, Sophia Hunger, Katia Pilati and Julia Schulte-Cloos; 2. Selecting and coding contentious episodes Hanspeter Kriesi, Swen Hutter, Abel Bojar, Argyrios Altiparmakis, Theresa Gessler, Sophia Hunger, Katia Pilati and Julia Schulte-Cloos; 3. The economic and political context of the episodes Hanspeter Kriesi and Sophia Hunger; Part II. Varieties of Contention: 4. Conceptualizing, measuring and mapping contentiousness Swen Hutter and Theresa Gessler; 5. Actors configurations and coalitions in contentious episodes Swen Hutter and Theresa Gessler; 6. Action sequences and their dynamic indicators of contention Abel Bojar and Argyrios Altiparmakis; 7. Outcomes – government responsiveness Julia Schulte-Cloos and Sophia Hunger; Part III. Dynamics of Interaction: 8. Interaction dynamics in contentious episodes: path-dependence, tit-for tat and constructive mediation Abel Bojar and Hanspeter Kriesi; 9. The governments' reactions to challengers and third-parties Hanspeter Kriesi; 10. The effect of repression on protest Katia Pilati; 11. Turning points Abel Bojar; 12. The Greek case Argyrios Altiparmakis; 13. Conclusion Abel Bojar, Hanspeter Kriesi and Swen Hutter.