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    Title: Os movimientos sociales e a sociedade civil  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Series/Report no.: [COSMOS]
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    Title: Political Corruption  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; VANNUCCI, Alberto Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: This entry reviews social science literature on political corruption, privileging an institutionalist approach. In doing so, it looks at resources and mechanisms of hidden exchange as well as at its governance.
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    Title: Percorsi di micromobilitazione verso la lotta armata  Author(s): BOSI, Lorenzo; DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: The chapter analyses, on the basis of life histories and other biographical materials, different paths of micro-mobilization into the armed struggle. Linking networks and motivations, the authors distinguish three such ...
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    Title: Social Movement Studies and Political Violence  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Series/Report no.: [COSMOS]
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    Title: The Riots: A dynamic view  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; GBIKPI, Bernard Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: Most social science concepts are contested—but some more so. This is the case for riot, that (as terrorism or Nimby), derives from everyday language, and is used in a stigmatizing way to single out irrational and deviant ...
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    Title: Global Movements in Local Struggles: Findings on the Social Forum Process in Italy  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; MOSCA, Lorenzo Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: This chapter addresses the developments of local social forums in Italy. It looks especially at their network structures, faming and repertoires of action, as well as their consequences on the Italian social movement sector.
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    Title: Eventful Protest, Global Conflicts: Social mechanisms in the reproduction of protest  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: This chapter conceptualises eventful protests, describing the relational, cognitive and affective mechanisms that are activated during contentious politics.
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    Title: Transnational Activism and the Global Justice Movement  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; MARCHETTI, Raffaele Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: This chapter looks at the contributions of the global justice movements to political and social theories, looking in particular at theories of justice and democratization.
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    Title: Social Movements  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; DIANI, Mario Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: This chapter explores the interactions between the social science literature ion social movements and civil society, and considers both differences and similarities in their conceptualization as well as in the actual ...
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    Title: Social Movement Studies and Transnationalization: An uneasy relation or a happy start? An afterword  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: This afterword to a collection on transnational social movements reconstructs the evolution of the relations between international relations and social movements as fields of studies.
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    Title: Reinventing Europe. Social Movement Activists as Critical Europeanists  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: This chapter reports on results of surveys with activists participating in different editions of the European social forum. It argues that, even thought they tend to express strong criticism of the EU political and policy ...
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    Title: Movimenti sociali e Stato democratico  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: The chapter analyses the evolution of conceptions and practices of democracies in social movements in the last three centuries. It looks at the role played by social movements before first democratization through the ...
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    Title: Mouvements sociaux, terrorisme et institutions  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: This chapter looks at radicalization processes in Italy in the 1970s, addressing the interactions between (new left) social movements, (right-wing) counter-movements and the state. The theoretical model suggests a relational ...
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    Title: Mouvements sociaux et violence politique  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: Social movement studies and political violence studies have grown quite apart from each other. The chapter summarizes existing research in the field and suggests potential use of concepts and hypotheses developed in social ...
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    Title: Movimenti sociali, terrorismo, istituzioni  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: This chapter presents an analysis of the evolution of left-wing political violence in Italy. It points at the relevance of a relational analysis, that takes into account the interactions of differen actors as well as their ...
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    Title: Paths to February 15 Protest: Social or Political Determinants?  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: On the bases of empirical evidence from a survey on participants to the Global day of action against the war on Iraq (on February 15th 2003) in eight countries, the chapter explains paths of participation on the basis of ...
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    Title: Social Movements  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: The chapter reviews some main trends in European approaches to social movements, selectively developing some main dimensions of cross-national comparison and, finally, addressing the issue of the Europeanization of social ...
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    Title: Social Movements and Civil Society: How emerging social conflicts challenge social science approaches  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: This chapter is based upon the opening speech at the general conference of the European Sociological Association in Edinburgh in 2007. It discusses conceptions of civil society and social movements, pleading for a more ...
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    Title: Leaving underground organizations: A sociological analysis of the Italian case  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: Research on political violence has focused on processes of radicalization, paying little attention to the inverse processes of de-radicalization. Based on life histories as well as a large-N data base on former militants ...
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    Title: Social Movements, Trade Unions and Advocacy Networks  Author(s): ROSSI, Federico Matías; DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: This chapter looks at the relationship between social movements, cycles of protest, waves of strikes and transnational advocacy networks of resistance to non-democratic regimes in the third wave of democratization. The ...