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Extreme Right and Populism: A Frame Analysis of Extreme Right Wing Discourses in Italy and Germany. IHS Political Science Series No. 121, July 2010
Full text linkThis paper addresses the interactions between the extreme right and populism, looking at right wing discourses in Italy and Germany, focusing on different types of extreme right organizations (political parties, violent subcultural/young right wing groups, and political movements), and adopting a social movement perspective. Through a frame analysis conducted on several types of organizational documents (newspapers, websites, online guest books and forums, and other forms of publications), covering a period from 2000-2006, for a total of 4000 frames, it explores empirically the aspect of the conceptualization of the populism by the extreme right, showing the bridging of the appeal to the people with some traditional frames of the extreme right, such as nativism and authoritarianism, and stressing how the central populist frames (the people versus the elite) are linked to the extreme right definition of the 'us' and the 'them', when developing diagnoses, prognoses and motivations to action. A political opportunity and discursive approach will be useful in explaining the different configurations of populist frames depending on country and organizational type
A search for alternatives: Hauke Brunkhorst, Donatella della Porta and Fritz W. Scharpf on the state of the European Integration
Full text linkThis interview is a conversation held by three senior researchers, who have been inquiring the process of European integration for several decades. “Even if Europe is entrapped, I do not believe however that there is no alternative... quite the opposite: the crisis makes the search for alternatives not only necessary, but also possible.” (D. della Porta)
Clandestine political violence
No full text'Clandestine Political Violence' compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing (in Italy and Germany), right-wing (in Italy), ethnonationalist (in Spain) and religious fundamentalist (in Islamist clandestine organizations). Oriented toward theory building, Della Porta develops her own definition of clandestine political violence. Building on the most recent developments in social movement studies, Della Porta proposes an original interpretative model. Using a unique research design, she singles out some common causal mechanisms at the onset, during the persistence and at the demise of clandestine political violence. The development of the phenomenon is located within the interactions among social movements, countermovements and the state. She pays particular attention to the ways different actors cognitively construct the reality they act upon. Based on original empirical research as well as existing research in many languages, this book is rich in empirical evidence on some of the most crucial cases of clandestine political violence.1. Political violence and social movements: an introduction
2. Escalating policing
3. Competitive escalation during protest cycles
4. The activation of militant networks
5. Organizational compartmentalization
6. Action militarization
7. Ideological encapsulation
8. Militant enclosure
9. Leaving clandestinity? Reversing mechanisms of engagement
10. Clandestine political violence: some conclusion
How social movements can save democracy : democratic innovations from below
No full textThe birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and mobilizations of ordinary people. Yet many feel as though they have inherited democratic institutions which do not deliver for the people – that a rigid democratic process has been imposed from above, with increasing numbers of people feeling left out or left behind.
In this well-researched volume, leading political sociologist Donatella della Porta rehabilitates the role social movements have long played in fostering and deepening democracy, particularly focusing on progressive movements of the Left which have sought to broaden the plurality of voices and knowledge in democratic debate. Bridging social movement studies and democratic theory, della Porta investigates contemporary innovations in times of crisis, particularly those in the direction of participatory and deliberative practices – ‘crowd-sourced constitutions’, referendums from below and movement parties – and reflects on the potential and limits of such alternative politics.
In a moment in which concerns increase for the potential disruption of a Great Regression led by xenophobic movements and parties, the cases and analyses of resistance in this volume offer important material for students and scholars of political sociology, political science and social movement studies
Contentious Migrant Solidarity : Shrinking Spaces and Civil Society Contestation
No full textIn the context of both the financial crisis and the crisis of European migration politics,
the notion of solidarity has gained renewed prominence and – as this book argues – its
practice has become increasingly contentious. Intersecting crises have sharpened social
and political polarization and have contracted simultaneously the space for migrant and
minority rights as well as the rights around political dissent.
Building upon social movement and migration studies, this book maps the two sides of
‘contentious solidarity’: a shrinking civic space and its contestation by civil society. The
book thereby unfolds the variety of repressive means (physical, legal, administrative and
discursive) employed by governmental and non-governmental bodies against migrant sol-
idarity, but also looks at how civil society organizations react to these restrictions through
at times moderation and at times increasing contention. The diagnosis of ‘contentious soli-
darity’ is located within two broader trends affecting the relationship between the state and
civil society in a neoliberal context in general and since the financial crisis in particular.
Bridging studies on social movement studies and civil society organizations, this vol-
ume contributes to recent reflections on repression of social movements as well as of a
hybridization of civil society organizations. Given its broad scope and the utmost time-
liness of the issues it addresses, the volume will be of interest to a broad academic and
non-academic audience
Prefazione
No full textprefazione alla traduzione italiana di Silvia Della Porta del volume: Julian Budden, Verdi, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, terza edizion
Cómo los movimientos sociales pueden salvar la democracia
No full textThe birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and mobilizations of ordinary people. Yet many feel as though they have inherited democratic institutions which do not deliver for the people – that a rigid democratic process has been imposed from above, with increasing numbers of people feeling left out or left behind.
In this well-researched volume, leading political sociologist Donatella della Porta rehabilitates the role social movements have long played in fostering and deepening democracy, particularly focusing on progressive movements of the Left which have sought to broaden the plurality of voices and knowledge in democratic debate. Bridging social movement studies and democratic theory, della Porta investigates contemporary innovations in times of crisis, particularly those in the direction of participatory and deliberative practices – ‘crowd-sourced constitutions’, referendums from below and movement parties – and reflects on the potential and limits of such alternative politics.
In a moment in which concerns increase for the potential disruption of a Great Regression led by xenophobic movements and parties, the cases and analyses of resistance in this volume offer important material for students and scholars of political sociology, political science and social movement studies
Clinical relevance of extra-hematologic comorbidity in the management of patients with myelodysplastic syndrome.
No full textMyelodysplastic syndromes occur mainly in older persons, and these patients are likely to have comorbidities that significantly worsen their survival. In this perspective article, Drs. Della Porta and Malcovati examine the relevance of comorbidities for clinical decision making in patients with myelodysplasti syndromes
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