When Citizens Talk About Politics
This book offers novel insights into the way in which people talk about politics across various countries. Drawing on focus groups research in nine countries, including mature democracies, post-communist new democracies and post-authoritarian new democracies, it offers comparative reflection on how talk about political activity is shaped by peoples perceptions of specific opportunities to participate, the issues that concern them and the broader political environment. It thus examines citizens views of major issues and political grievances in their own words and helps to shed new light on reasons for engagement in political acts, whether through electoral or protest channels, or political disengagement.
Clare Saunders is Professor of Politics in the Environment and Sustainability Institute and Department of Politics at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Environmental Networks and Social Movement Theory and the co-author of Politics and the Environment: From Theory to Practice and Prospects for Citizenship.
Bert Klandermans is Chair in Applied Social Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is the author of Social Psychology of Protest and the co-editor of The Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines, The Future of Social Movement Research, Methods of Social Movement Research, and The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Movements.
The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
Published in conjunction with Mobilization: An International Quarterly, the premier research journal in the field, this series publishes a broad range of research in social movements, protest and contentious politics. This is a growing field of social science research that spans sociology and political science as well as anthropology, geography, communications and social psychology. Enjoying a broad remit, the series welcome works on the following topics: social movement networks; social movements in the global South; social movements, protest, and culture; personalist politics, such as living environmentalism, guerrilla gardens, anticonsumerist communities, anarchist-punk collectives, and emergent repertoires of contention.
Series editor: Professor Hank Johnston, San Diego State University, USA
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When Citizens Talk About Politics
Edited by Clare Saunders and Bert Klandermans
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Zsolt Enyedi is Professor at the Political Science Department of Central European University. He has (co)authored two and (co)edited eight volumes and published numerous articles and book chapters, mainly on party politics and political attitudes. His articles have appeared in journals such as European Journal of Political Research, Political Studies, Political Psychology, West European Politics, Party Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, Perspectives on Politics, European Review, etc. Zsolt Enyedi was the 2003 recipient of the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize and the 2004 winner of the Bib Award. He has held research fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Notre Dame University, NIAS, EUI, and Johns Hopkins University.
Anastasia Garyfallou studied Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In her bachelors thesis, she studied the December 2008 contentious events in Greece. She obtained her research masters degree in Social Psychology (cum laude) at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, in 2013. In her masters thesis, she examined political trust and evaluations of democracy among political generations in the Greek crisis. Shes currently a PhD candidate at the Sociology department of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Her PhD project Perceptions of Europes Crises and Citizens Political Strategies in Greece and Germany, focuses on the protagonists of Europes crises, Greek and German citizens, their perceptions of these crises (financial, cultural, political) and their political strategies to tackle them.
Swen Hutter is Lichtenberg-Professor in Political Sociology at Freie Universitt Berlin and Vice Director of the Center for Civil Society Research, a joint initiative of Freie Universitt and the Berlin Social Science Center WZB. He studied political science at the Universities of Zurich and Vxj (Sweden) and holds a PhD from the University of Munich (2011). His dissertation involves a comparative study of protest politics in Western Europe and won the Munich University Societys prize for best dissertation. Hutter is the author of Protesting Culture and Economics in Western Europe (2014; University of Minnesota Press) and co-editor of Politicizing Europe (2016; Cambridge University Press) and European Party Politics in Times of Crisis (forthcoming; Cambridge University Press), among others.
Bert Klandermans is Professor in Applied Social Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the social psychology of protest and social movement participation. He has studied the labour movement, and the peace movement, the womens movement, and the extreme right. He is the author of the now classic
