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This book analyzes the individual and contextual determinants of protest politics in Western Europe. Building on different theoretical perspectives, from social movements theory to political behavior approaches, the author provides new empirical evidence on the patterns of protest politics. Readers will discover why some citizens are more likely to get involved in protests than others, and why levels of protest differ from country to country. The author illustrates that engagement in political protest is often rooted in the interplay of the protester’s individual characteristics and their home country’s contextual characteristics.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This book analyzes the individual and contextual determinants of protest politics in Western Europe. Building on different theoretical perspectives, from social movements theory to political behavior approaches, the author provides new empirical evidence on the patterns of protest politics. Readers will discover why some citizens are more likely to get involved in protests than others, and why levels of protest differ from country to country. The author illustrates that engagement in political protest is often rooted in the interplay of the protester’s individual characteristics and their home country’s contextual characteristics.

Autorenporträt
Mario Quaranta holds a PhD in Political Science from the ‘Italian Institute of Human Science’, Florence, and is currently a post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at LUISS ‘Guido Carli’, Rome. His research focuses on political behavior, public opinion, democracy and methodology. His works have appeared, among others, in the European Political Science Review, the International Political Science Review, South European Society & Politics and West European Politics.