Cycles of Protest and the Consolidation of Democracy

<span class="abs_content">Outcomes of democratization paths have been addressed within literature on democratic consolidation as well as on revolution. These approaches have however never been linked with social movement theory that, I argue in this article, can provide new lenses to...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:931756bc59dd4343b43911bb95f3acad2021-11-21T15:11:38ZCycles of Protest and the Consolidation of Democracy1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v7i3p447https://doaj.org/article/931756bc59dd4343b43911bb95f3acad2014-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/14342https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">Outcomes of democratization paths have been addressed within literature on democratic consolidation as well as on revolution. These approaches have however never been linked with social movement theory that, I argue in this article, can provide new lenses to explain how movements’ characteristics at the time of transition might have an impact on the quality of ensuing democracy. As the same time, looking at effects of social movements in terms of democratization can help broadening social movement studies, that have rarely addressed this type of effects. I am in particular interested in linking reflections (and empirical evidence) on effects of social movements to the typology on paths towards democratization that I have developed in other works. Looking especially at Central Eastern Europe post-1989, I single out the different characteristics of contentious politics in countries that underwent, respectively, eventful democratization, participated pacts and troubled democratization. Protest event analysis as constituted the empirical basis for the analysis</span><br />Donatella Della PortaCoordinamento SIBAarticledemocracydemocratizationsocial movementsprotest event analysispolitical participationPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 7, Iss 3, Pp 447-468 (2014)
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topic democracy
democratization
social movements
protest event analysis
political participation
Political science (General)
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democratization
social movements
protest event analysis
political participation
Political science (General)
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Donatella Della Porta
Cycles of Protest and the Consolidation of Democracy
description <span class="abs_content">Outcomes of democratization paths have been addressed within literature on democratic consolidation as well as on revolution. These approaches have however never been linked with social movement theory that, I argue in this article, can provide new lenses to explain how movements’ characteristics at the time of transition might have an impact on the quality of ensuing democracy. As the same time, looking at effects of social movements in terms of democratization can help broadening social movement studies, that have rarely addressed this type of effects. I am in particular interested in linking reflections (and empirical evidence) on effects of social movements to the typology on paths towards democratization that I have developed in other works. Looking especially at Central Eastern Europe post-1989, I single out the different characteristics of contentious politics in countries that underwent, respectively, eventful democratization, participated pacts and troubled democratization. Protest event analysis as constituted the empirical basis for the analysis</span><br />
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title_short Cycles of Protest and the Consolidation of Democracy
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