Challenging the Political Order: New Social and Political Movements in Western Democracies.

Abstract

Part 1 Introduction: the challenge of new movements, Russell Dalton et al. Part 2 The origins of new movements: cyclical aspects of new social movements, Karl-Werner Brand cultural change and new movements, Ronald Inglehart neo-corporatism and the rise of new social movements, Frank Wilson social movements and political innovation, Max Kaase. Part 3 Networks of action: the West European peace movement and the theory of new social movements, Thomas Rochon linking the Old and movement networks in the Netherlands, P.Bert feminism and political action, Joyce Gelb the strategies and action repertoires of new movements, Dieter Rucht. Part 4 New movements and political parties: new social movements and the decline of party organizations, Herbert Kitscheld new political movements and new politics parties in Western europe, Ferdinand Muller-Rommel reflections on the institutional self-transformation of movement politics, Claus Offe the phantom at the opera, Sidney Tarrow. Part 5 New social movements in perspective: new social movements and the political order, Manfred Kuechler.