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Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars,
this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the
evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a
specifically European context. While its first half offers
comparative approaches to an array of significant issues and
movements, its second half assembles focused national studies that
include most major European states. Throughout, these contributions
are guided by a shared set of historical and social-scientific
questions with a particular emphasis on political sociology, thus
offering a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be
essential for scholars and students of European social movements.
Histories of Portugal's transition to democracy have long focused
on the 1974 military coup that toppled the authoritarian Estado
Novo regime and set in motion the divestment of the nation's
colonial holdings. However, the events of this "Carnation
Revolution" were in many ways the culmination of a much longer
process of resistance and protest originating in universities and
other sectors of society. Combining careful research in police,
government, and student archives with insights from social movement
theory, The Revolution before the Revolution broadens our
understanding of Portuguese democratization by tracing the societal
convulsions that preceded it over the course of the "long 1960s."
Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars,
this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the
evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a
specifically European context. While its first half offers
comparative approaches to an array of significant issues and
movements, its second half assembles focused national studies that
include most major European states. Throughout, these contributions
are guided by a shared set of historical and social-scientific
questions with a particular emphasis on political sociology, thus
offering a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be
essential for scholars and students of European social movements.
Histories of Portugal's transition to democracy have long focused
on the 1974 military coup that toppled the authoritarian Estado
Novo regime and set in motion the divestment of the nation's
colonial holdings. However, the events of this "Carnation
Revolution" were in many ways the culmination of a much longer
process of resistance and protest originating in universities and
other sectors of society. Combining careful research in police,
government, and student archives with insights from social movement
theory, The Revolution before the Revolution broadens our
understanding of Portuguese democratization by tracing the societal
convulsions that preceded it over the course of the "long 1960s."
Representative democracies are facing huge challenges that stem
from long trends of citizens' dissatisfaction and weakening of
political legitimacy, on the one hand, and the effects of global
economic and financial crisis on electoral alignments and the
patterns of government, on the other. This volume uses the
Portuguese case as an important case study to examine the long-term
debate on the crisis of representative democracies with the attempt
to assess the impact of the Great Recession. In particular, this
study examines two relevant dimensions, namely citizens'
participation and mobilization, as well as longitudinal evolution
of the linkages between voters and MPs, highlighting both
continuities and changes. Through a wide and rich data collection
and the comparative perspective adopted, this study furthers our
understanding of how Portuguese democracy has bounced back and has
emerged as a peculiar case among European democracies, especially
if we look at innovate democratic practices - at both citizens' and
elites' level - that have been adopted after the Great Recession.
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