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    Title: Protest and policing on October 15th, global day of action : the Italian case  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; ZAMPONI, Lorenzo Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: Fifteenth October 2011, a global day of anti-austerity action called for by the Spanish indignados, saw hundreds of thousands of protestors converging on Rome for a national march. One of the largest, this Rome event was ...
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    Title: Mobilizing against the Crisis, Mobilizing for 'Another Democracy': Comparing two global waves of protest  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [COSMOS]
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    Title: Interactive Diffusion: The coevolution of police and protest behavior with an application to transnational contention  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; TARROW, Sidney Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: In this article, the authors focus attention on a poorly understood aspect of contentious politics: the interaction between the transnational diffusion of new forms of protest behavior and police practices in response to ...
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    Title: Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism: An introduction  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; HAUPT, Heinz-Gerhard Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: Research on political violence occurs in waves, generally corresponding to the successive swells of violence that in many ways define modern society. Critically, this violence is characterized as much by diversity as by ...
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    Title: Guest Editorial: Processes of radicalization and de-radicalization  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; LAFREE, Gary Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: The study of radicalization and de-radicalization, understood as processes leading towards the increased or decreased use of political violence, is central to the question of how political violence emerges, how it can be ...
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    Title: Presentación. Desafíos metodológicos en la investigación de la participación  Author(s): FONT, Joan; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; SINTOMER, Yves Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: Participation is a well-established subject in the social sciences. Individual participation, non-governmental organizations, interest groups, and social movements have all been important fields of research for years, at ...
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    Title: Desperately Seeking Politics: Political attitudes of participants in three demonstrations for worker's rights in Italy  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; REITER, Herbert Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: Social conflicts tend to take different forms. This article compares three demonstrations on issues of social justice in Italy: a traditional Labor Day demonstration, a march supporting a general strike called by the largest ...
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    Title: Micro-Mobilization into Armed Groups: The ideological, instrumental and solidaristic paths  Author(s): BOSI, Lorenzo; DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: Based on biographical materials of armed militants of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and Red Brigades, this article analyses variation within the micromobilization that leads to armed groups. Three general paths are ...
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    Title: Models of Democracy: Challenges and opportunities  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Recent reflections on democratic crises address mainly some specific characteristics of Western democracies: the full sovereignty of the nation state, party democracies, and well-established welfare states. However, these ...
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    Title: Communications in Movements. Social Movement as Agents of Participatory democracy  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Literature on social movements, mass media and democracy have rarely interacted. More recently, however, in all three fields of knowledge, some opportunities for reciprocal learning and interactions developed, moved by ...
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    Title: La violenza politica: una introduzione  Author(s): BOSI, Lorenzo; DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: With this special issue our aim is to take some steps toward examining the various manifestations of violent repertoires of action, both historical and contemporary, around the globe. This introduction will develop a ...
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    Title: The Elitist Populism of the Extreme Right: A frame analysis of extreme right wing discourses in Italy and Germany  Author(s): CAIANI, Manuela; DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: In this article, the authors investigate the presence and forms of populist frames in the discourse of the extreme right, by looking at different types of extreme right organizations In Italy and Germany. Focusing on the ...
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    Title: In Defence of Pluralism in the Social Sciences  Author(s): KEATING, Michael; DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: There are five levels in social inquiry: ontology; epistemology; approaches; methodology; and methods, which we see as means of gathering information. There is no determinate relationship such that one school will consistently ...
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    Title: A discussion of Counter-democracy: politics in an age of distrust  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: A symposium discussion of the following book by Pierre Rosanvallon; "Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distruct". An electronic version of this article can be accessed via the internet at http://journals.cambridge.org
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    Title: A discussion of counter-democracy: politics in an age of distrust  Author(s): SCHMITTER, Philippe C.; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; WARREN, Mark E. Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: A symposium discussion of the following book by Pierre Rosanvallon; "Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust.". An electronic version of this article can be accessed via the internet at http://journals.cambridge.org
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    Title: Democrazia: sfide e opportunità  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The article reports the opening keynote speech (prolusione) at the Annual Congress of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica in 2009. It discusses recent challenges and opportunities for democracy, stressing that the ...
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    Title: Sulla sociologia italiana. Un dibattito  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This short article comments upon a broad debate on the status of sociology in Italy, locating it in cross-national and cross-disciplinary perspective.
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    Title: In difesa del pluralismo. Conclusione: pluralismo sì ma ‘ragionevole’  Author(s): KEATING, Michael; DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2009-01-01 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The article aims at conceptualizing methodological pluralism, at different levels. The social sciences have been racked by arguments about ontology, epistemology, approaches, methods and methodology. There is a tendency ...
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    Title: Searching the net: Websites’ qualities in the Global Justice Movement  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; MOSCA, Lorenzo Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Notwithstanding a growing interest in online politics, the analysis of web sites’ qualities by social movement organizations (SMOs) has received little attention in social research. In creating their sites, SMOs often ...
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    Title: Southern European Environmental Movements  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; JIMENEZ, Manuel Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: On the basis of an empirical research combining protest events and organizational surveys, the article compares the environmental movements in Greece, Italy, and Spain. The existence of a Southern European syndrome is discussed