How can European societies more effectively promote the active engagement of immigrants and their children in the political and civic life of the countries where they live? This groundbreaking collection of essays is the first to provide... more
How can European societies more effectively promote the active engagement of immigrants and their children in the political and civic life of the countries where they live? This groundbreaking collection of essays is the first to provide an empirical and comparative account of the political integration of migrants in Europe. Using data from a unique study conducted in ten European cities, and survey data from more than 10,000 individuals, this book shows how migrants' individual attributes and resources, their social capital, and the political opportunities provided by political institutions and public discourses shape their political integration. Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe shows that migrants resources – such as education and language proficiency – are crucial determinants of migrants' capacity to engage with politics. Equally, it discusses how certain types of social capital can be particularly beneficial in achieving migrants political inclusion. Finally, and importantly, this book demonstrates that certain legal, policy and discursive approaches are more effective than others in including migrants in the political community.
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Anti-austerity protest in Spain can be understood in a broad context where the economic crisis evolved in parallel to a political crisis. The study of the political consequences of the economic crisis is currently a relevant topic in... more
Anti-austerity protest in Spain can be understood in a broad context where the economic crisis evolved in parallel to a political crisis. The study of the political consequences of the economic crisis is currently a relevant topic in Spain concerning the mobilization potential of grievances (Muñoz et al. 2014, Perez-Nievas et al. 2013) and partisan effects on how individuals understand the crisis (Fernández-Albertos, Kuo and Balcells 2013). Attitudes and beliefs on government responsibility provide a comprehensive picture of responses to the crisis, which may be conditioned by the role of parties and unions in the formation of grievances. Multiple studies in electoral politics have signaled to the importance of partisanship and party cues in explaining attitudes towards politics and issue positions (Bartels 2002). Parties have also been studied as central agents in developing the understanding of contested issues such as environmental beliefs (Buttel and Flinn 1976) attitudes towards war (Luther and Miller2005) and racial attitudes (Abramowitz 1994). This phenomenon has not received the attention it deserves in studying responses to the economic crisis, and partisan identity has been of no great concern when studying mobilization to anti-austerity protest. The central argument in this chapter is that partisan identity is relevant in explaining perceptions of the crisis, especially considering the context of union mobilization against austerity in the Spanish context
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This article examines the macro–micro dynamics linking party membership with protest participation. We theorise that institutional and extra-institutional engagement are mutually reinforcing and that party membership has a positive effect... more
This article examines the macro–micro dynamics linking party membership with protest participation. We theorise that institutional and extra-institutional engagement are mutually reinforcing and that party membership has a positive effect on party activism. We examine key ideational and structural factors identified in the literature to analyse the relative importance of various factors for party members’ involvement. We look at micro-macro-level linkages by examining macro-level contextual variables as well as the extent to which these features mediate the individual-level effects. Our results suggest that party members support social movements for a variety of ideational and structural reasons but that strategic reasons are also important. Moreover, we find that contexts marked by more open political opportunities close the gap in social movement activism between party members and non-members suggesting that contexts with higher public spending as well as crises could be capitalis...
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By employing individual-level data on MPs in 15 countries and 73 national and local assemblies, this article examines the conditions under which individual MPs are responsive to interest organizations. We show that MPs’ political values... more
By employing individual-level data on MPs in 15 countries and 73 national and local assemblies, this article examines the conditions under which individual MPs are responsive to interest organizations. We show that MPs’ political values influence their responsiveness: MPs with more egalitarian and socially open values are more responsive to interest organizations. Moreover, MPs’ conceptions of democracy also matter in that more negative views of popular political involvement in democratic decision making are linked to lower responsiveness to interest organizations. Reliance on established ties with groups in society as well as support for technocracy have differential effects for responsiveness toward “old” and “new” interest organizations characterized by diverse social bases. These findings have important implications for democratic practice since they show how MPs are not all equally responsive to organized citizens as well as how different types of factors matter for responsiven...
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Starting from a definition of altruism as situations in which a given actor sustains harm while another actor gains benefits, we compare the behaviors of respondents in relation to the members of three main groups of... more
Starting from a definition of altruism as situations in which a given actor sustains harm while another actor gains benefits, we compare the behaviors of respondents in relation to the members of three main groups of beneficiaries—refugees and asylum seekers, unemployed people, and people with disabilities—through the analysis of original survey data collected in eight European countries ( N ~ 16,000) in the TransSOL project. We investigate in particular the reasons why people act on behalf of each of these three groups without being a member of any of them or having close ties with any individuals in these groups. These respondents are compared with respondents who are members of these groups and/or have close ties with people within them so as to isolate the factors underlying individual-level altruistic behavior. Our results show that political altruism emerges out of a complex combination of factors and is not simply reducible to social structural positions, subjective feelings ...
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Previous studies have found that left-wing and libertarian individuals are more likely to engage in extra-institutional political activism. However, due to a lack of suitable data, studies to date have not analysed the relative influence... more
Previous studies have found that left-wing and libertarian individuals are more likely to engage in extra-institutional political activism. However, due to a lack of suitable data, studies to date have not analysed the relative influence of economic redistributive and social libertarian values for the intensity of protest participation. By analysing data from a unique cross-national dataset on participants in mass demonstrations in seven countries, this article addresses this gap in the literature and provides evidence of the relative impact of economic redistributive and social libertarian values in explaining different degrees of protest participation. We show that there are divergent logics underpinning the effect of the two value sets on extra-institutional participation. While both economically redistributive and libertarian social values support extra-institutional participation, economically redistributive protesters are mobilized to political action mainly through organizati...
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This article investigates the involvement of alternative action organizations in three forms of political advocacy in an attempt to gauge their degree of politicization. These forms can be understood as representing three different ways... more
This article investigates the involvement of alternative action organizations in three forms of political advocacy in an attempt to gauge their degree of politicization. These forms can be understood as representing three different ways of making political claims: by raising public awareness with respect to a given cause or issue, by trying to influence the policy maker through "insider" lobbying activities, and by protesting in the streets as "outsiders." Our findings show strong cross-national variations in all three forms of political activities, although not always following a consistent pattern. They also suggest that there is a relationship between the severity of the economic crisis and the form of advocacy. Most important, our analysis suggests that the politicization of alternative action organizations depends both on certain internal characteristics such as their degree of formalization and professionalization, as well as their thematic focus, and the s...
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Environmental movements are networks of informal interactions that may include individuals, groups, and organizations engaged in collective action motivated by shared identity or concern about environmental issues. This article reviews... more
Environmental movements are networks of informal interactions that may include individuals, groups, and organizations engaged in collective action motivated by shared identity or concern about environmental issues. This article reviews literature on environmental movements (including antinuclear energy movements) according to four main aspects: the social bases and values underlying the movements' mobilization, the resources supporting their mobilization, the political opportunities channeling their mobilization, and the cultural framing processes through which environmental issues are defined as social and political problems to be addressed through mobilization. In addition, we consider the historical antecedents and roots of environmental movements. Finally, we discuss the interplay between the local and the global levels and the movements' impacts, a long neglected issue in the social movement literature. Our review highlights three main features of environmental movement...
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Counting and classifying inhabitants of foreign origin and/or identifying them as being part of ethnic minorities is often a sensitive issue. Categorization of certain social and ethnic groups when monitoring the population is an... more
Counting and classifying inhabitants of foreign origin and/or identifying them as being part of ethnic minorities is often a sensitive issue. Categorization of certain social and ethnic groups when monitoring the population is an important tool in developing adequate policy, among other things to be able to tackle discrimination and unequal opportunities. Although often meant to improve the situation of those being counted, census material and statistical data have at repeated times, however, been misused to single out 'foreign'elements in order to ...
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Inspired by spatial theories of political behavior and by work on the impact of immigration on national identity, in this article we propose an explanation of the extreme right's claim making based on the interplay of three factors:... more
Inspired by spatial theories of political behavior and by work on the impact of immigration on national identity, in this article we propose an explanation of the extreme right's claim making based on the interplay of three factors: national models of citizenship, the dynamics of political alignments and party competition, and the strategic/organizational repertoires of the extreme right, in particular the electoral strength of extreme-right parties. Confronting a number of hypotheses derived from this theoretical framework with original data on the extreme right's claim making in five European countries (the Netherlands, Britain, France, Germany, and Switzerland), we show how political-institutional and cultural-discursive opportunities account for differences in the extent, forms, and content of xenophobic and extreme-right claim making. Our study shows that national configurations of citizenship affect in significant ways the mobilization of the extreme right, both direct...
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... empirique suffisamment fiable pour 6valuer la mobilisation des trois mouvements et leur impact sur les politiques publiques (voir ... lundi car c'est pendant le week-end qu'ont lieu la plupart des actions non... more
... empirique suffisamment fiable pour 6valuer la mobilisation des trois mouvements et leur impact sur les politiques publiques (voir ... lundi car c'est pendant le week-end qu'ont lieu la plupart des actions non conventionnelles comme les ... souvent par une large participation populaire ...
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... empirique suffisamment fiable pour 6valuer la mobilisation des trois mouvements et leur impact sur les politiques publiques (voir ... lundi car c'est pendant le week-end qu'ont lieu la plupart des actions non... more
... empirique suffisamment fiable pour 6valuer la mobilisation des trois mouvements et leur impact sur les politiques publiques (voir ... lundi car c'est pendant le week-end qu'ont lieu la plupart des actions non conventionnelles comme les ... souvent par une large participation populaire ...
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This chapter provides an overview of the main objectives of the project as well as the general theoretical framework adopted in the project. To do so, it draws in part from the research outline (Giugni and Statham 2002), but also includes... more
This chapter provides an overview of the main objectives of the project as well as the general theoretical framework adopted in the project. To do so, it draws in part from the research outline (Giugni and Statham 2002), but also includes theoretical advancements and developments made during the life-time project. In particular, we present a theoretical reflection about the relationship
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We are all inclined to think today that processes of globalization have a strong impact on national political structures and processes. The nation-state seems to lose its ability to set policy agendas and to define, formulate and... more
We are all inclined to think today that processes of globalization have a strong impact on national political structures and processes. The nation-state seems to lose its ability to set policy agendas and to define, formulate and implement related public policies, due to the increasing importance of international institutions and regimes on the global and European level. This development entails a trend towards increasing similarities across countries in certain political fields. The former issue can be referred to as the denationalization thesis, the latter as the convergence thesis. This chapter aims to evaluate these assumptions by analyzing the impact of globalization in the field of unemployment politics in six European countries. We focus in particular on public debates and collective mobilizations concerning unemployment and their development of these over time. Following a neo-institutional perspective, we argue that the impact of globalization on the political claim- making...
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Despite the development of the political violence and terrorism literature, which has moved strongly forward in the past decade, scientific works on the consequences of armed groups are still rare. This article encourages... more
Despite the development of the political violence and terrorism literature, which has moved strongly forward in the past decade, scientific works on the consequences of armed groups are still rare. This article encourages cross-fertilization between the sparse studies of the con- sequences of political violence and the growing body of research on how social movements matter. First, we show the variety of potential outcomes of armed groups’ violent repertoires. We then review works on the consequences of social movements and highlight lessons for the study of armed groups. Specifically, we urge scholars to look for the interplay of internal and external factors in studying the impact of armed groups. We call for a comparative focus that dwells less on conditions and more on the processes and mechanisms affecting the impact of political violence. At the same time, we acknowledge that the literature on political violence and terrorism can inform social movement scholarship. In particul...
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... Toutes soutiennent que l'expérience militante affecte profondément et durablement les systèmes d'attitudes [Abramowitz, Nassi, 1981 ; Fendrich, 1974, 1993 ; Jennings, 1987 ; Nassi, Abramowitz, 1979 ; Whalen, Flacks,... more
... Toutes soutiennent que l'expérience militante affecte profondément et durablement les systèmes d'attitudes [Abramowitz, Nassi, 1981 ; Fendrich, 1974, 1993 ; Jennings, 1987 ; Nassi, Abramowitz, 1979 ; Whalen, Flacks, 1984, 1989 ; Goldstone, McAdam, 2001 ; McAdam 1989]. ...
Penser les mouvements sociaux Conflits sociaux et contestations dans les sociétés contemporaines Sous la direction de OLIVIER FILLIEULE, ÉRIC AGRIKOLIANSKY ET ISABELLE SOMMIER Penser les mouvements sociaux Conflits sociaux et... more
Penser les mouvements sociaux Conflits sociaux et contestations dans les sociétés contemporaines Sous la direction de OLIVIER FILLIEULE, ÉRIC AGRIKOLIANSKY ET ISABELLE SOMMIER Penser les mouvements sociaux Conflits sociaux et contestations dans les sociétés contemporaines L A SOCIOLOGIE DES MOUVEMENTS SOCIAUX constitue aujourd'hui un champ bien distinct des sciences sociales, à l'intersection de la science politique, de la sociologie et de l'histoire. Les turbulentes années 1960 lui ont servi de tremplin aux États-Unis en replaçant la question du conflit social au coeur de démocraties qui avaient voulu l'ou-blier et en offrant aux chercheurs de multiples terrains pour l'étudier in vivo. L'intérêt pour la contestation a été plus tardif et moins soutenu en Europe et l'ensemble des analyses, éclaté, reste secondaire par rapport aux écoles américaines. Aujourd'hui pourtant, la sociologie française des mouvements sociaux possède des traits distinctifs que ...