Overview
- Analyzes recent social movements and protests in the non-Western world
- Investigates political demands and protesters’ mobilization strategies
- Focuses on the concept of participatory democracy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Societies and Political Orders in Transition (SOCPOT)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book analyzes social movements across a range of countries in the non-Western world: Bosnia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Iran, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Turkey and Ukraine in the period 2008 to 2016. The individual case studies investigate how political and social goals are framed nationally and globally, and the types of mobilization strategies used to pursue them. The studies also assess how, in the age of transnationalism, the idea of participatory democracy produces new collective-action frames and mass-mobilization strategies.
The book challenges the view that most social movements unequivocally seek to achieve higher levels of democratization. Instead, the authors argue that protesters across different movements advocate more involved forms of citizen participation, since passive representation through liberal democratic institutions fails to address mass grievances and demands for accountability in many countries.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dina Rosenberg is an assistant professor of political science in the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She earned her MA and PhD degrees in Political Science from Binghamton University. Her current research focuses on political institutions and comparative political economy, with a specific focus on innovations. She published her most recent work in Review of Policy Research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Non-Western Social Movements and Participatory Democracy
Book Subtitle: Protest in the Age of Transnationalism
Editors: Ekim Arbatli, Dina Rosenberg
Series Title: Societies and Political Orders in Transition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51454-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51453-6Published: 10 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84655-2Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51454-3Published: 02 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2511-2201
Series E-ISSN: 2511-221X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 200
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Democracy, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Globalization
Industry Sectors: Engineering