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The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe

Welfare States and Political Opportunities

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Marco Giugni

    1. University of Geneva, Switzerland

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: An Introduction

    1. The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: An Introduction

      • Marco Giugni
      Pages 1-16

  3. Context and Opportunities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Welfare States, Political Opportunities, and Claim Making in the Field of Unemployment Politics

      • Manlio Cinalli, Marco Giugni
      Pages 19-42

    3. The Protest on Unemployment: Forms and Opportunities

      • Donatella della Porta
      Pages 43-69

    4. Networks and Political Contention over Unemployment: A Comparison of Britain, Germany, and Switzerland

      • Manlio Cinalli, Katharina Füglister
      Pages 70-93

  4. Actors and Dynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. A Precarious Balance of Interests: Unions and the Unemployed in Europe

      • Annulla Linders, Marina Kalander
      Pages 97-126

    3. The Role of Civil Society Actors in the Contentious Politics of Unemployment

      • Simone Baglioni
      Pages 127-151

    4. Transcending Marginalization: The Mobilization of the Unemployed in France, Germany, and Italy in a Comparative Perspective

      • Simone Baglioni, Britta Baumgarten, Didier Chabanet, Christian Lahusen
      Pages 152-168

  6. The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Some Conclusions

    1. The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Some Conclusions

      • Marco Giugni
      Pages 244-252

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 253-283
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This book provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in Europe and examines the impact of welfare state regimes, conceived as political opportunity structures specific to this field, public debates and collective mobilizations in unemployment politics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Marco Giugni

About the editor

SIMONE BAGLIONI is a research fellow at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy BRITTA BAUMGARTEN is Research fellow of the Research Group Civil Society, Citizenship and political Mobilization at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany MICHEL BERCLAZ works in the field of public policies evaluation for the state of Geneva DIDIER CHABANET is Associate Research Fellow at the University Institute of European Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain MANLIO CINALLI is Associate Research Professor at Sciences Po Paris, France DONATELLA DELLA PORTA is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Italy KATHARINA FÜGLISTER is a Ph.D candidate and teaching assistant at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland MARCO GIUGNI is a researcher at the Laboratoire de recherches sociales et politiques appliquées (resop) and teaches at the Department of Political Science at the Universityof Geneva, Switzerland MARINA KALANDER BLOMQVIST is a public health specialist at the division for Research and Public Health, at Landstinget in Värmland, Sweden, and a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Karlstad University, Sweden CHRISTIAN LAHUSEN is Professor for Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Siegen, Germany ANNULLA LINDERS is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati, USA PAUL STATHAM is Professor of Political Sociology and Director of EurPolCom, the Centre for European Political Communications, hosted by the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

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