Mobilizing for Democracy: Comparing 1989 and 2011

by Donatella della Porta

Strangely enough, while the pictures used to illustrate the most recent wave of protests for democracy in North Africa represent mass protest, research on social movements and democratization have rarely interacted. This volume aims to fill this gap by looking at episodes of democratization through the lens of social movement studies. Without assuming that democratization is always produced from below, the author singles out different paths of democratization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199689326
• ISBN13: 9780199689323
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"