Über die Krise der Demokratie wurde in den vergangenen Jahren viel geredet. Doch wie geht es weiter? Ist Rettung in Sicht? Donatella della Porta zeigt in ihrem neuen Buch als eine der weltweit besten Kennerinnen sozialer Bewegungen, welche progressive Kraft sie entwickelt haben und auch in Zukunft entwickeln können. Nicht auf die Eliten und die etablierten Parteien ist zu hoffen, wenn es um neue Ideen und Veränderungen geht, sondern auf Bewegungen und Protestformationen, auf Bürgerinnen und Bürger. So sind etwa in Spanien Podemos und in Bolivien Movimiento al Socialismo an die Stelle etablierter Parteien getreten. In Island und Irland wurden Bürgerversammlungen initiiert, die sich an Verfassungsprozessen beteiligten. Diese Beispiele zeigen, dass die Demokratie der ständigen Erneuerung bedarf. Und gerade in Krisenzeiten bieten sich Gelegenheiten für einen Wandel.
The birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and mobilizations of ordinary people. Yet many feel as though they have inherited democratic institutions which do not deliver for the people – that a rigid democratic process has been imposed from above, with increasing numbers of people feeling left out or left behind. In this well-researched volume, leading political sociologist Donatella della Porta rehabilitates the role social movements have long played in fostering and deepening democracy, particularly focusing on progressive movements of the Left which have sought to broaden the plurality of voices and knowledge in democratic debate. Bridging social movement studies and democratic theory, della Porta investigates contemporary innovations in times of crisis, particularly those in the direction of participatory and deliberative practices – ‘crowd-sourced constitutions’, referendums from below and movement parties – and reflects on the potential and limits of such alternative politics. In a moment in which concerns increase for the potential disruption of a Great Regression led by xenophobic movements and parties, the cases and analyses of resistance in this volume offer important material for students and scholars of political sociology, political science and social movement studies.
In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the best current research on the nexus between the local and the global in translating the global justice movement into action at the grass roots, and vice versa. Using recent cases of transnational contention_from the European Social Forum in Florence to the Argentinean human rights movement and British environmentalists, from movement networks in Bristol and Glasgow to the Zapatistas_the original chapters by distinguished scholars presented in this volume adapt current social movement theory to what appears to be a new cycle of protest developing around the globe.
Social Movements is a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of
collective action in society today. In this new edition, the authors have
updated all chapters with the most recent scientific literature, expanded on
topics such as individual motivations, new media, public policies, and
governance.
A revolutionary new textbook introducing masters and doctoral students to the major research approaches and methodologies in the social sciences. Written by an outstanding set of scholars, and derived from successful course teaching, this volume will empower students to choose their own approach to research, to justify this approach, and to situate it within the discipline. It addresses questions of ontology, epistemology and philosophy of social science, and proceeds to issues of methodology and research design essential for producing a good research proposal. It also introduces researchers to the main issues of debate and contention in the methodology of social sciences, identifying commonalities, historic continuities and genuine differences.
This Element addresses the ways in with the health emergency had an impact on
the repertoire of action, the organizational networks and the collective
framing of progressive social movements that adapted to the pandemic
conditions and the related crises, but also tried to transform them.
This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While most studies of social movements focus on single-nation studies, Donatella della Porta uses a comparative research design to analyze movements in two countries--Italy and Germany--from the 1960s to the 1990s. Through extensive use of official documents and in-depth interviews, della Porta is able to explain the actors' construction of external political reality, and to build a theory on political violence that synthesizes the various interactions among political actors.
CORREDATO DA SITO WEB A : www.mulino.it/aulaweb Il volume, qui presentato in una nuova edizione aggiornata, offre una panoramica completa delle tematiche costitutive della scienza politica. I primi capitoli propongono una definizione della disciplina, delineandone l’oggetto, il metodo e le linee evolutive. Sono poi analizzati le grandi architetture della politica, i regimi, la loro successione storica, e ancora i repertori e gli attori della partecipazione politica. Si passa quindi a descrivere le principali istituzioni della democrazia rappresentativa e ad esaminare il versante della implementazione delle politiche pubbliche. Infine, si dà conto della dimensione tipica dello stato nazionale e delle sue interazioni con l’esterno. All'indirizzo www.mulino.it/aulaweb docenti e studenti troveranno materiale utile alla didattica e all'apprendimento. Indice: I. La politica. - II. Metodologia della ricerca politica. - III. La disciplina: origini, temi, approcci. - IV. Democrazia, democrazie. - V. Regimi non democratici. - VI. Democrazia e mutamenti. - VII. Partecipazione politica e movimenti sociali. - VIII. I gruppi di pressione. - IX. I partiti politici. - X. La comunicazione politica. - XI. Elezioni e sistemi elettorali. - XII. Parlamenti e rappresentanza. - XIII. I governi. - XIV. La politica locale. - XV. Le burocrazie pubbliche. - XVI. Il potere dei giudici. - XVII. Le politiche pubbliche. - XVIII. Stato nazionale e sistema internazionale. - Riferimenti bibliografici. - Indice dei nomi. Maurizio Cotta è professore di Scienza politica nell’Università di Siena. Tra i suoi libri usciti al Mulino: «Classe politica e parlamento in Italia, 1946-1976» (1979), «Il gigante dai piedi di argilla. La crisi del regime partitocratico in Italia» (a cura di, con P. Isernia, 1996) e «Il sistema politico italiano» (con L. Verzichelli, 2008). Donatella della Porta è professore di Sociologia all’Istituto universitario europeo di Firenze. Tra i suoi libri usciti al Mulino: «I partiti politici» (2001), «I new global» (2003), «Polizia e protesta. L’ordine pubblico dalla Liberazione ai no global» (con H. Reiter, 2004), «Movimenti senza protesta» (con M. Diani, 2004) e «Introduzione alla scienza politica» (nuova ed. 2008). Leonardo Morlino è professore di Scienza della politica all’Istituto italiano di Scienze umane (Sum) di Firenze. Tra i suoi libri usciti al Mulino: «Democrazie e democratizzazioni» (2003), «Fondamenti di scienza politica» (con M. Cotta e D. della Porta, 2004), «Introduzione alla ricerca comparata» (2005) e «Democrazie tra consolidamento e crisi» (2008).
