Can I read Protest politics in Germany : movements on the Left and Right since the 1960s on EtoBox?

Protest politics in Germany : movements on the Left and Right since the 1960s by Roger Karapin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Protest politics in Germany : movements on the Left and Right since the 1960s about?

Social movements and the protests they spawn are widely regarded as important to the vibrancy of democracy and its ability to respond constructively to change. In the immediate postwar period, West Germany's was a "spectator democracy," with the citizenry largely passive and elites operating mainly through consensus. Beginning with the student demonstrations in the late 1960s, however, Germany experienced waves of left-wing protest that expanded the political agenda and broadened political participation. Later, after the unification of East and West Germany, the country was confronted by new challenges from right-wing groups, which often engaged in violence during the early 1990s. In this book Roger Karapin carefully examines protest movements on both the left and the right in order to understand how they became large and influential and why protesters in different conflicts used quite different methods (ranging from conventional participation to nonviolent disruption to violent militancy). His study of nine cases of protest includes leftist opposition to urban-renewal and nuclear-energy policies in the 1970s and 1980s and rightist opposition to immigration policy in the 1990s.

Who reads Protest politics in Germany : movements on the Left and Right since the 1960s?

Author

Roger Karapin

Publisher

The Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271029863

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Social Science