Party Responses to Social Movements : : Challenges and Opportunities / / Daniela R. Piccio.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Piccio, Daniela R.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Protest, Culture & Society ; 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)

Across the West, the explosion of social movement activity since the late 1960s has constituted a “participatory revolution” that has posed profound challenges for formal political parties. Through an analysis of new interviews, institutional documents, and a host of other largely unexploited sources, Daniela R. Piccio provides a rich and empirically grounded exploration of the wide-ranging responses to these movements. Focusing on Italy and the Netherlands since the 1970s, Party Responses to Social Movements demonstrates how political parties have incorporated the demands of movements to a surprising extent, even as both have grappled with fundamental and inevitable tensions between their respective roles and aims.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Politics beyond Parties -- Chapter 2. Social Movements and the Traditional Left: A Cautious Reception -- Chapter 3. ‘And Yes, It Moves!’: The Unexpected Response of Centrist Parties to Social Movements -- Conclusion. It Was Worth the Effort -- Appendix 1. Election Outcomes and Government Coalitions -- Appendix 2. Social Movements’ Themes in Party Manifestos -- Bibliography -- Index