Claudius Wagemann

Donatella della Porta

Manuela Caiani

Research on the extreme right is rare, and the extreme right has even more rarely been analysed as a social movement. In this volume, the extreme right is compared in Italy, Germany, and the United States using concepts and methods developed in social movement studies. In particular, the book describes the discourse, action, and organizational structures of the extreme right, and explains these on the basis of the available discursive and political opportunities. Three main empirical methods are used in the research. Firstly, the frame analysis looks at the cognitive mechanisms that are relevant in influencing organizational and individual behaviour. Second, network analysis looks at the (inter-) organizational structural characteristics of right-wing organizations. Finally, protest event analysis allows for an empirical summary of the actions undertaken by right-wing extremists over the last decade. The substantive chapters address the organizational structure of the extreme right, their action repertoires, the framing of protest events, the definition of 'us', the struggle against modernity, old and new forms of racism, opposition to globalization, and populism.

Germany, Italy, and the United States

Mobilizing on the Extreme Right

JURGEN R.. WAGEMANN GROTE (CLAUDIUS.)

This book is about the building of alliances and about joint activities between two groups of social movement actors ascribed increasing relevance for the functioning and the eventual amendment of democratic capitalism. The chapters provide a well-balanced mix of theoretical and empirical accounts on the political, social and economic catalysts behind the changing motives finding expression in a multitude of novel types of joint collective action and inter-organizational alliances. The contributors to this volume go beyond attempting to place unions, movements, crises, precariousness, protests and coalitions at the centre of the research. Instead, they focus on actors who themselves transcend clear-cut social camps. They look at the values and motives underlying collective action by both types of actors as much as at their structural and strategic properties, and inter-organizational relations and networks. This creates a fresh, genuine and historically valid account of the incompatibilities and the commonalities of movements and unions, and of prospects for inter-organizational learning.

Passions and Interests

Social Movements and Organized Labour

Markus B. Siewert

Achim Goerres

​Dieses Handbuch beinhaltet Beiträge zu Methodenforschung und -anwendung in der Politikwissenschaft, die von führenden Expertinnen und Experten im deutschsprachigen und internationalen Raum verfasst sind. Erstens wird dargestellt, welcher Erkenntnisgewinn mit der jeweiligen Methode möglich ist. Zweitens werden Grundprinzipien der jeweiligen Anwendung erläutert und der Leserschaft ein Einstieg in die Funktionsweise der Methode ermöglicht. Drittens befähigen die Beiträge, mit den beschriebenen Methoden und Techniken verfasste Veröffentlichungen kritisch zu lesen, die Vorgehensweise sowie Qualität der Methodenanwendung zu beurteilen und die Validität der erzielten Ergebnisse einzuschätzen. Und viertens skizzieren die Beiträge wichtige Anwendungsfelder der Methoden anhand von Beispielen politikwissenschaftlicher Veröffentlichungen.

Handbuch Methoden der Politikwissenschaft

This volume compares the extreme right in Italy, Germany, and the United States using concepts and methods developed in social movement studies, paying particular attention to the discourses actions, and organisational structures of each movement.

Kai-Uwe Schnapp

Andreas Blätte

Joachim Behnke

"Big Data" ist in aller Munde. Zeitungen, Zeitschriften und Bücher greifen das Thema auf; es wird viel debattiert. Wie fundamental die Umwälzungen sind, die mit der Datenflut einhergehen, dringt erst seit kurzem ins öffentliche Bewusstsein. Was aber bedeutet "Big Data" für die Politikwissenschaft? Welche Herausforderungen stellen sich? Der Sammelband trägt politikwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf neue Entwicklungen zusammen, um zur Diskussion darüber beizutragen, welche Art von Veränderungen der Arbeitsweisen, Erkenntnismöglichkeiten und Erkenntnisprozesse empirischer politikwissenschaftlicher Forschung sich aufgrund der Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung ergeben haben. Der Ausrichtung der Sektion Methoden folgend ist der Band vorrangig auf die methodisch-technischen, weniger auf die moralischen und gesellschaftspolitischen Dimensionen des Gesamtthemas Big Data und New Analytics ausgerichtet. Mit Beiträgen von Florian Bader, Joachim Behnke, Andreas Blätte, Sebastian Dumm, Mennatallah El-Assady, Thorsten Faas, Valentin Gold, Simon Hegelich, Christian Hoops, Pascal Jürgens, Andreas Jungherr, Cathleen Kantner, Kelly Lancaster, Christian Müller, Simon Munzert, Dominic Nyhuis, Maximilian Overbeck, Christian Rohrdantz, Christian Rubba, Gary S. Schaal, Kai-Uwe Schnapp, Susanne Schnorr-Bäcker, Harald Schoen, Andree Thieltges und Claudius Wagemann.

Die Analyse von Big Data

Computational Social Science

Private Interest Governments were identified in the 1980s as a special form of public regulation in selected economic sectors, rivalling conventional market, state, or community-based forms of public order. This book examines how these institutional arrangements have changed since their identification. It takes into account external changes such as Europeanization, globalization, liberalization, and sector-specific developments, which have had an impact on even long-established public policies. Breakdown and Change of Private Interest Governments presents new empirical insights in changes which led to the disappearance of a prime example of neo-corporatism, a traditional form of political and economic regulation, recurring to original data for interest associations in the dairy sector of four countries, Austria, Britain, Germany and Switzerland. It discusses the empirical results and the similarities and differences between the countries with regard to external processes which were studied with a different focus in the past. Utilising a comparative country case approach and the dairy industry as a specific sector case study, Breakdown and Change of Private Interest Governments will be of interest to students and scholars of Globalization and Political Economy.

Claudius Wagemann

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