Social Movements and the Left in Portugal and Spain (2008-2015). Contesting Austerity compares the contentious responses to austerity in Portugal and Spain between 2008 and 2015. While in Spain a sustained wave of mobilisation lasted for three years and led to a transformation of the party system, in Portugal social movements mobilised only in specific instances, trade unions dominated protest and institutional change was limited. Contesting Austerity shows that trajectories and outcomes in these countries are linked to the nature and configurations of the players in the mobilisation process.
Author(s): Tiago Carvalho
Series: Protest And Social Movements
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 229
City: Amsterdam
Tags: Contemporary Society; Economics And Finance; International Relations; Politics And Government; Sociology And Social History
Cover
Half title
Series title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of Contents
List of tables and figures
Figure 3.1 Protest actions (per 1000 people) in Portugal and Spain per year (1980-1995)
Figure 3.2 Contentious players (%) in Portugal (1980-1995)
Figure 3.3 Contentious players (%) in Spain (1980-1995)
Figure 3.4 Repertoires (%) in Portugal (1980-1995)14
Figure 3.5 Repertoires (%) in Spain (1980-1995)
Figure 4.1 Number of protest events per month in Portugal and Spain (2009-2015)
Figure 4.2 Number of protests (per half-year) by type of player in Portugal (2009-2015)41
Figure 4.3 Number of protests (per half-year) by type of player in Spain (2009-2015)42
Figure 4.4 Number of protests (per half-year) with demands about representation and participation (%) in Spain and Portugal (2009-2015)
Figure 5.1 Protest events organised by political parties, trade unions and social movements (%) in Portugal (2009-2015)
Figure 5.2 Protest events organised by political parties, trade unions and social movements (%) in Spain (2009-2015)
Figure 5.3 Claim-making in Portugal (%) (2009-2015)
Figure 5.4 Claim-making in Spain (%) (2009-2015)
Figure 5.5 Number and type of political claims per year in Spain (2009-2015)
Figure 5.6 Type of players (%) in social claims per year in Spain (2009-2015)53
Figure 5.7 Type of players (%) in social claims per year in Portugal (2009-2015)
Figure 5.8 Type of social claims (%) per three months in Spain (2009-2015)
Figure 5.9 Type of social claims (%) per three months in Portugal (2009-2015)
Figure 5.10 Players by types of social claims in Spain (2009-2015)
Figure 5.11 Type of social rights claims by economic, political and cultural claims in Spain (2009-2015)
Figure 5.12 Number of social claims by players per three months in Spain (2009-2015)
Figure 5.13 Repertoires in social claims by types of players in Spain (2009-2015)
Figure 5.14 Number of housing repertoires per three months (2009-2015)
Figure 5. 15 Types of economic claim: austerity and labour in Spain (2009-2015)
Figure 5.16 Type of economic claims: austerity and labour claims in Portugal (2009-2015)
Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Starting point
The contentious politics of neoliberalism
European crisis
The politics of austerity in the Southern European countries
Contesting austerity in Southern Europe
Contesting austerity: social movements and the left
Bibliography
1. Cycles, arenas and claims
A players-based approach
Cycles of protest, political opportunity structures and eventful protests
Blurring the lines: a multi-player perspective
Repertoires, discourses and claim-making
Research design, methods and data collection
Bibliography
2. Preludes to the anti-austerity mobilisations
From Democratisation to the Great Recession
Contentious transitions
Contention under consolidating democracies
New millennium contentious transitions
Anti-austerity antecedents (2005-2010)
Diverging paths to the anti-austerity cycle of protest
Bibliography
3. Turning points
Going beyond the core
Setting the scene for austerity
Networks and players
Turning points in Portugal
Turning points in Spain
Going beyond the core: a summary
Between democracy, precarity and austerity: movement culture and frames
Networks of resistance
Opening the way forward
Bibliography
4. Enduring austerity
From representation to redistribution
Enduring austerity
Players and claim-making between 2009-2015
Overlapping dynamics of contention in Spain
Mareas as a hybrid: between social movements and trade unions
Housing, civil disobedience and relation with Institutions
Recentralisation, platforms and protest events: post-15M dynamics
Labour from below
From movement void to strategic alliance building in Portugal
Trade unions and movement void
Constitutional break and the QSLT – Alliance building and exclusions
Claim-making and repertoires in the QSLT
Demobilisation
A plural arena
Bibliography
5. From the streets to institutions
Reconfiguration of the left after the anti-austerity mobilisations
Dynamics of demobilisation
Reshaping the left: between party elites and social movements
Breaking hegemony: Podemos and the party-constellation
Municipal projects: the case of Madrid
Podemos, IU and the recomposition of the left
The road to the general elections and the party-constellation
Resilience and the recomposition of the left in Portugal
Left Bloc from 2011 to 2015: crisis, internal dynamics and re-shaping of the Left in Portugal
From Congresso Democrático das Alternativas to a recomposition of the left
Political outcomes and post-2015 alliances
Bibliography
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendices
Appendix I Chronology
Appendix II Interviews
Portugal
Spain
Appendix III Protest Event Analysis Codebook
Introduction
What constitutes an event? Procedures and delimitation
Data collection and coding process
Codebook
Bibliography
Index
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