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Debating Unemployment Policy
  • Political Communication and the Labour Market in Western Europe
  • Edited by Laurent Bernhard, Flavia Fossati, Regula Hänggli, Hanspeter Kriesi
  • Published online:
    15 April 2019
    Print publication:
    02 May 2019
  • In 2008 the world experienced the Great Recession, a financial and economic crisis of enormous proportions and the greatest economic downturn since the 1930s. In its wake, unemployment became a key preoccupation of West European publics and politicians. This comparative study considers the policy debates surrounding unemployment in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark and Switzerland since 2008. With an over-arching focus on drawing out cross-national commonalities and differences, the authors ask whether patterns of political communication vary across countries. Their analysis draws on interviews with labour market policy-makers in the six selected countries, and paints a revealing picture. Appealing to researchers in comparative politics, political communication and welfare state research, this book will also interest practitioners involved in labour market policy.

  • 2 - Contentious Europeans?

  • Marco Giugni, Maria T. Grasso, University of Sheffield
  • Book:
    Street Citizens
    Published online:
    15 March 2019
    Print publication:
    04 April 2019, pp 27-52

  • Summary

    Chapters 2 refers to the mobilizing context. It sets our analysis in the broader context of the potential for political mobilization – the demand-side of mobilization – in the seven countries, using ESS data. We aim to assess the degree of contentiousness of European citizens and how this varies both across countries and over time. In addition, we examine a number of aspects pertaining to the mobilizing structures, political values and political attitudes of European citizens, forming the backdrop against which we can confront the characteristics of our sample of demonstrators in the analyses to follow in subsequent chapters.

  • 6 - Cognition and Affect among Demonstrators

  • Marco Giugni, Maria T. Grasso, University of Sheffield
  • Book:
    Street Citizens
    Published online:
    15 March 2019
    Print publication:
    04 April 2019, pp 135-160

  • Summary

    Chapter 6 looks at the cognitive and affective dispositions of demonstrators. More specifically it addresses the role of political attitudes and emotions as well as how the relate to each other We examine in particular to which extent demonstrators are interested in politics, satisfied with democracy, trust the political institutions, and have the feeling they can change things through their engagement. We also look at how political interest, satisfaction, trust, and efficacy varies across countries, depending on whether demonstrations address cultural or economic issues, and between novices and activists. Furthermore, we examine the relationship between political attitudes of demonstrators and four primary emotions (anger, worry, fear, and frustration) which may be expected to combine with political attitudes and to influence in different ways the individuals’ motivation to participate in demonstrations. Confronting political attitudes and emotions, we assess two accounts of commitment among demonstrators – a cognitive account based on political attitudes and an affective account stressing the role of emotions – and how these two types of factors combine.

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