Mobilizing for Democracy: Comparing 1989 and 2011

della Porta, Donatella

ISBN 10: 0199689326 / ISBN 13: 9780199689323

Published by Oxford University Press, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mobilizing for Democracy: Comparing 1989 and 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199689326
• ISBN 13: 9780199689323
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: Illustrated.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Compares two waves of protests for democracy, in Central Eastern Europe in 1989 and in the Middle East and North Africa in 2011

About the Author

Donatella della Porta has launched COSMOS (Consortium on Social Movement Studies) at the EUI. She is now starting a major ERC project Mobilizing for Democracy, on civil society participation in democratization processes in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. She is co-editor of the European Political Science Reviews (ECPR-Cambridge University Press). In 2011, she was the recipient of the Mattei Dogan Prize for distinguished achievements in the field of political sociology. Her main fields of research are social movements, the policing of public order, participatory democracy, and political corruption. She is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute and Professor of Political Science at the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane.