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One of the hallmarks of advanced industrial democracies is the “participatory revolution” that has changed the nature of democratic citizenship in the later half of the twentieth century (Barnes, Kaase et al. 1979). Public interest lobbies, citizen action groups, and new social movements of all forms have bloomed across the political landscape. Environmental groups, for example, became a regular participant in most democratic policy processes — while they barely existed as a modern social movement a generation ago (Klingemann 1985). The same applies to the women’s movement, self-help movements, and a variety of other citizen-initiated movements. Moreover, these social movements have developed a transnational or international presence and influence.
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Dalton, R.J., Rohrschneider, R. (2002). Political Action and the Political Context: A Multi-level Model of Environmental Activism. In: Fuchs, D., Roller, E., Weßels, B. (eds) Bürger und Demokratie in Ost und West. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-89596-7_18
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