TY - BOOK ID - 32302242 TI - Social movements, political violence, and the state : a comparative analysis of Italy and Germany PY - 2004 SN - 0521029791 9780521473965 9780511527555 9780521029797 0521473969 0511527551 0511834950 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Social movements KW - Political violence KW - Mouvements sociaux KW - Violence politique KW - Germany KW - Italy KW - Allemagne KW - Italie KW - Politics and government KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Social change KW - Political systems KW - Internal politics KW - Politics KW - Violence KW - Movements, Social KW - Social history KW - Social psychology KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Terrorism KW - #SBIB:324H73 KW - #SBIB:324H74 KW - Politieke verandering: oppositie en minderheid, protest, politiek geweld KW - Politieke verandering: sociale bewegingen KW - Social Sciences KW - Sociology KW - Political violence - Italy KW - Political violence - Germany KW - Social movements - Italy KW - Social movements - Germany KW - Italy - Politics and government - 1945-1976 KW - Italy - Politics and government - 1976-1994 KW - Germany - Politics and government - 1945-1990 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32302242 AB - This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While most studies of social movements focus on single - nations, Donatella della Porta uses a comparative research design to analyse movements in two countries - Italy and Germany - from the 1960s to the 1990s. Through extensive usage of official documents and in-depth interviews, della Porta is able to explain the actors' construction of external political reality. The empirical data are used to build a middle-range theory of political violence that incorporates an analysis of the interactions between social movements and the state at the macro-level, an analysis of the development of radical organizations as entrepreneurs for political violence at the meso-level, and an analysis of the construction of 'militant' identities and countercultures at the micro-level. ER -