Grasso, M. and Giugni, M. (2016) Do issues matter? Anti-austerity protests’ composition, values, and action repertoires compared. In: Davies, T., Ryan, H. and Peña, A., (eds.) Protest, Social Movements and Global Democracy Since 2011: New Perspectives. Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, 39 . Emerald , pp. 31-58. ISBN 978-1-78635-028-2
Abstract
An important wave of anti-austerity protests has swept across Western Europe in recent years. We can thus distinguish between three different types of protest occurring in Western Europe recently: “old” issue protests, relating to the trade union and labor movement; “new” issue protests, relating to culture and identity issues; anti-austerity protests, emerging directly in reaction to austerity measures and cuts enacted in the current period. Following previous literature, we hypothesize that anti-austerity protests have attracted a new constituency to the streets and that they will be different from both “old” and “new” protests in terms of their social composition, value orientations, and action repertoires. We expect anti-austerity protesters to be on the whole younger, and in more precarious working conditions, to be more concerned with economic over social issues, but also to be considerably less institutionalized and embedded in organizational networks, and to have fewer experiences of previous extra-institutional participation. We test these hypotheses by analyzing a unique and novel dataset containing data from over 10,000 protestors from 72 demonstrations (2009–2013). Our results lend broad support to our hypotheses with the exception of the idea that “precarity” forms a new social base for anti-austerity protests.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Emerald Publishing Group. This is an author produced version of a chapter subsequently published in Davies, T. et al (2016), Protest, Social Movements and Global Democracy Since 2011: New Perspectives (Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Volume 39. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Social movements; protest; austerity; anti-austerity; issues |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2016 15:02 |
Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2018 16:03 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-786X20160000039002 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Emerald |
Series Name: | Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1108/S0163-786X20160000039002 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:93884 |