Social Movements and Referendums from Below Direct Democracy in the Neoliberal Crisis Books uri icon

authors

  • della Porta, Donatella
  • O'Connor, Francis
  • PORTOS GARCÍA, MARTÍN
  • Subirats Ribas, Anna

publication date

  • 2017

isbn

  • 978-1447333418

abstract

  • Over recent years, social movements formed in response to European neoliberal austerity measures have played an increasingly important role in referendums. This is the first book to bridge the gap between social movement studies and research on direct democracy. It draws on social movement theory to understand the nature of popular mobilisation in referendums.