Social movements, political violence, and the state : a comparative analysis of Italy and Germany / Donatella Della Porta.
This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While most studies of social movements focus on single-nation studies, Donatella della Porta uses a comparative research design to analyze movements in two countries - Italy and Germany - from the 1960s to the 1...
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Format: | Ebook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1995.
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Series: | Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core |
Summary: | This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While most studies of social movements focus on single-nation studies, Donatella della Porta uses a comparative research design to analyze movements in two countries - Italy and Germany - from the 1960s to the 1990s. Through extensive use of official documents and in-depth interviews, della Porta explains the actors' construction of external political reality. The empirical data are used to build a middle-range theory on political violence that incorporates an analysis of the interactions between social movements and the state at the macro-level, an analysis of the development of radical organizations as entrepreneurs for political violence at the meso-level, and an analysis of the construction of "militant" identities and countercultures at the micro-level. By studying the social movement families from within which violence emerges, linking social movements to institutions, and, finally, providing a systematic analysis - firmly grounded in history - of the nature of political violence, the author has created a masterful synthesis that will help secure a place for the study of political violence in the study of systemwide politics. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages) : illustrations. |
Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0521029791 9780521029797 0511527551 9780511527555 0511834950 9780511834950 |
DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511527555 |