Party Responses to Social Movements
Author | : Daniela R. Piccio |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2019-03-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1789201543 |
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Across the West, the explosion of social movement activity since the late 1960s has constituted a “participatory revolution” that has posed profound challenges for formal political parties. Through an analysis of new interviews, institutional documents, and a host of other largely unexploited sources, Daniela R. Piccio provides a rich and empirically grounded exploration of the wide-ranging responses to these movements. Focusing on Italy and the Netherlands since the 1970s, Party Responses to Social Movements demonstrates how political parties have incorporated the demands of movements to a surprising extent, even as both have grappled with fundamental and inevitable tensions between their respective roles and aims.