Protest Publics Toward a New Concept of Mass Civic Action /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Belyaeva, Nina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Albert, Victor (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Zaytsev, Dmitry G. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Societies and Political Orders in Transition,
• Subjects: Public policy.; Democracy.; Comparative politics.; Economic development.; Social change.; Public Policy.; Comparative Politics.; Development and Social Change.

This book examines the waves of protest that broke out in the 2010s as the collective actions of self-organized publics. Drawing on theories of publics/counter-publics and developing an analytical framework that allows the comparison of different country cases, this volume explores the transformatio...

Table of Contents:

• Self-Organized Publics in Mass Protests: An Introduction
• PART I: Dimensions of Protest Publics in the Recent Wave of Unrest
• Exploring Protest Publics: A New Conceptual Frame for Civil Participation Analysis
• Shoulder to Shoulder against Fascism: Publics in Gezi Protests
• Emergent Protest Publics in India and Bangladesh: A Comparative Study of Anti-Corruption and Shahbag Protests
• The Grammar of Protest Publics in Skopje, Macedonia, May 2015
• Retracing Public Protest in Portugal: A Generation in Trouble
• Justification in Protest Publics: The Homeless Workers' Movement in Brazil's Crisis
• So Strong, Yet So Weak: The Emergence of Protest Publics in Iceland in the Wake of the Financial Crisis
• Five Stars of Change: The Transformation of Italian Protest Publics into a Movement Party through Grillo's Blog
• PART II: Protest Publics and Political Change in Different Political Regimes
• Cross-national Comparison of Protest Publics' Roles as Drivers of Change: from Clusters to Models
• Protesters as the "Challengers of the Status-Quo" in Embedded Democracies: The Cases of Iceland, the United Kingdom and the United States
• Protest Publics as the "Watchdogs" of the Quality of Democracy in Global South
• Protest Publics as the Triggers of Political Changes in Hybrid Regimes: The Cases of Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt
• Protest Publics as Democratic Innovators in an Authoritarian Environment
• The Transforming Role of Protest Publics in Processes of Sociopolitical Change in the Global South and Southern Europe: From Occasional Challengers to Institutionalized Watchdogs
• Conclusion: The Common Features and Different Roles of Protest Publics in Political Contestation.