Bøger af Dieter Rucht

Although living conditions have improved throughout history, protest seems to have increased to the point of becoming a normal phenomenon in modern societies. This volume examines how and why this is the case.

Das Internet, so der empirische Befund anhand der offentlichen deutschsprachigen Debatte zu Genfood, unterscheidet sich seiner diskursiven Qualitat kaum von Tageszeitungen, sofern vom durchschnittlichen Nutzerverhalten ausgegangen wird. Die mit dem Internet verknupften Hoffungen auf eine Demokratisierung und Rationalisierung politischer Streitfragen werden sich kaum erfullen.

Using controversy over abortion as a lens through which to compare the political process and role of the media in these two very different democracies, this book examines the contest over meaning that is being waged by social movements, political parties, churches and other social actors. Abortion is a critical battleground for debates over social values in both countries, but the constitutional premises on which arguments rest differ, as do the strategies that movements and parties adopt and the opportunities for influence that are open to them. By examining how these debates are conducted and by whom in light of the normative claims made by democratic theorists, the book also offers a means of judging how well either country lives up to the ideals of democratic debate in practice.

The present volume makes an attempt to adjust the perspective of the political process approach to a world in which political opportunities, mobilizing structures, framing processes and collective action of social movements are no longer confined to national political contexts.

The present volume makes an attempt to adjust the perspective of the political process approach to a world in which political opportunities, mobilizing structures, framing processes and collective action of social movements are no longer confined to national political contexts.