Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Movement Parties in Times of (Anti)Austerity: An
Introduction
Chapter 2. The Genesis of Movement Parties in the Neoliberal
Critical Juncture
Chapter 3. Organizational Repertoires of Movement Parties
Chapter 4. Framing Movement Parties
Chapter 5. Comparing Movement Parties’ Success and Failures
Chapter 6. Movement Parties: Some Conclusions
Appendix: List of Interviews
Notes
References
Donatella della Porta is Director of the Centre on Social
Movement Studies and Dean of the Institute of Humanities and Social
Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore
Joseba Fernández is an independent researcher, formerly of
the Centre on Social Movement Studies at the European University
Institute
Hara Kouki is a Research Associate at the European
University Institute (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced
Studies)
Lorenzo Mosca is Associate Professor of Political Science in
the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Scuola
Normale Superiore
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