At a time of growing concern over the fate of contemporary democracy this book shows how
vast differences between countries in forms of political conduct, and taken for granted …

What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the
experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined, create a greater …

Much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis
has focused upon a sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the post-war period …

This article provides a comparative overview of developments in strike activity in western
Europe since the mid-1990s. It uses various indicators to analyse discernible trends over …

In this book, Enrico Padoan proposes an original middle-range theory to explain the
emergence and the internal organisation of anti-neoliberal populist parties in Latin America …

An important wave of anti-austerity protests has swept across Western Europe in recent
years. We can thus distinguish between three different types of protest occurring in Western …

This article aims at explaining the emergence and magnitude of student protests in Chile in
2011 and in Quebec in 2012. These two societies witnessed unprecedented levels of …

The economic crisis has brought about a watershed in institutional, political, and social
relations, reshaping the labour market and the class structure in southern Europe. This book …

After the multidimensional financial crisis of 2008, the member states of the Eurozone
imposed a set of economic policies to save their economies. Socially unpopular cuts …

With no formal division between majority and opposition in the parliamentary arena, the
European Union (EU) calls for an approach to political opposition which considers the role …