Contention in Times of Crisis

Part I. A Study of Protest in 30 European Countries: 1. Introduction Hanspeter Kriesi, Silja Haeusermann and Jasmine Lorenzini; 2. Design and methods of the semi-automated protest event analysis Jasmine Lorenzini, Peter Makarov and Bruno Wueest; 3. External validation of the protest event analysis Bruno Wueest and Jasmine Lorenzini; Part II. Trends in Protest in the Great Recession: 4. Overall trends of protest in the Great Recession Hanspeter Kriesi; 5. All quiet on the protest scene? Repertoires of contention and protest actors during the Great Recession Sophia Hunger and Jasmine Lorenzini; 6. The return of the economy? Issue contention in the protest arena Theresa Gessler and Julia Schulte-Cloos; Part III. Sources of Protest: 7. Economic grievances, political grievances and protest Hanspeter Kriesi, Chendi Wang, Silja Haeusermann and Thomas Kurer; 8. Bailouts and protest: representative democracy and policy-making in times of austerity Argyrios Altiparmakis and Jasmine Lorenzini; 9. Diffusion of protest Bruno Wueest and Matthias Enggist; Part IV. Interaction between Convention and Contention: 10. Electoral punishment and protest politics in times of crisis Bjoern Bremer, Swen Hutter and Hanspeter Kriesi; 11. Are political parties recapturing the streets? A cross-regional study of party protests in the Great Recession Endre Borbath and Swen Hutter; 12. Conclusion Hanspeter Kriesi and Bruno Wueest.