Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity

Swen Hutter

ISBN 10: 1009002015 / ISBN 13: 9781009002011

Published by Cambridge University Press, GB, 2023

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Based on extensive data and analysis of sixty contentious episodes in twelve European countries, this book proposes a novel approach that takes a middle ground between narrative approaches and conventional protest event analysis. Looking particularly at responses to austerity policies in the aftermath of the Great Recession (2008-2015), the authors develop a rigorous conceptual framework that focuses on the interactions between three types of participants in contentious politics: governments, challengers, and third parties. This approach allows political scientists to map not only the variety of actors and actor coalitions that drove the interactions in the different episodes, but also the interplay of repression/concessions/support and of mobilization/cooperation/mediation on the part of the actors involved in the contention. The methodology used will enable researchers to answer old (and new) research questions related to political conflict in a way that is simultaneously attentive to conceptual depth and statistical rigor.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009002015
• ISBN 13: 9781009002011
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 518 grams

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Synopsis

Based on extensive data and analysis of sixty contentious episodes in twelve European countries, this book proposes a novel approach that takes a middle ground between narrative approaches and conventional protest event analysis. Looking particularly at responses to austerity policies in the aftermath of the Great Recession (2008–2015), the authors develop a rigorous conceptual framework that focuses on the interactions between three types of participants in contentious politics: governments, challengers, and third parties. This approach allows political scientists to map not only the variety of actors and actor coalitions that drove the interactions in the different episodes, but also the interplay of repression/concessions/support and of mobilization/cooperation/mediation on the part of the actors involved in the contention. The methodology used will enable researchers to answer old (and new) research questions related to political conflict in a way that is simultaneously attentive to conceptual depth and statistical rigor.

About the Authors

Abel Bojar is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the European University Institute.

Theresa Gessler is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science and the Digital Democracy Lab of the University of Zurich.

Swen Hutter is Lichtenberg Professor in Political Sociology at Free University of Berlin and Vice Director of the Center for Civil Society Research.

Hanspeter Kriesi is a Professor at the European University Institute in Florence.