Protest Politics
Cause Groups and Campaigns
Ridley(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 1. October 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
188 pages
978-0-19-922374-9 (ISBN)
Description
An analysis of many of the single-issue protest campaigns that have hit the news headlines in recent years; campaigns which helped give currency to the idea that party-based democracy was being challenged by single-issue politics. Campaigns covered include: Swampy and friends trying to stop the building of the second runway at Manchester Airport; the middle-aged residents of Brightlingsea physically stopping trucks transporting cattle to slaughter abroad; the Snowdrop campaign, calling for legislation to ban private ownership of firearms; and the Countryside Rally, lobbying Parliament to kill an anti-bloodsports Bill.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
308 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-922374-9 (9780199223749)
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Content
Preface: Crusaders and Politicians; Introduction: Politics without Parties; Gun Control and Snowdrop; Calf Exports at Brightlingsea; Second Runway at Manchester; Opposition to Road Building; Nuclear Power at Druridge Bay; Brent Spar, Atlantic Oil, and Greenpeace; Pesticides, Sheep Dips, and Science; Nuclear Weapons and CND; The Women's Movement; Anti-Abortion Campaigns; Defending Animal Rights; Europe, Goldsmith, and The Referendum Party