Cosmos
The Centre on Social Movement Studies
Journal Article - 2023
Author: Batuhan Eren
Journal Article - 2023
Author: Manuela Caiani, Balša Lubarda
This study focuses on right-wing populists (RWP) in power and their discourses and policy preferences on environmental issues. Through a content and frame analysis of electoral manifestos, party communication and semi-structured, in-depth interviews with party representatives, this paper examines whether ideological or contextual factors (political opportunities) determine RWP positioning on the environment. By focusing on… more
Journal Article - 2023
Author: Manuela Caiani, Balša Lubarda
This study focuses on right-wing populists (RWP) in power and their discourses and policy preferences on environmental issues. Through a content and frame analysis of electoral manifestos, party communication and semi-structured, in-depth interviews with party representatives, this paper examines whether ideological or contextual factors (political opportunities) determine RWP positioning on the environment. By focusing on… moreJournal Article - 2023
Author: Chiara Milan
Journal Article - 2023
Author: Lorenzo Bosi, Anna Lavizzari
This study explores how young activists in Italy responded to the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic using sixteen longitudinal qualitative interviews conducted in 2018 and 2020. Our fieldwork suggests that the Covid-19 crisis did not resonate with any significant shift in the trajectory of participation. At the same time, three major empirical observations with… moreJournal Article - 2023
Author: Lorenzo Zamponi
Journal Article - 2023
Author: Donatella della Porta, Anna Lavizzari, Herbert Reiter, Moritz Sommer, Elias Steinhilper, Folashade Ajayi
Journal Article - 2023
Author: Andrea Felicetti, Markus Holdo
Researchers are increasingly recognizing that social movements are crucial for realizing deliberative democratic values. However, this raises two important questions: (1) what actions should count as deliberation and (2) whether we should demand more from activists than merely provoking or encouraging deliberation in a society. Building on current research on activists’ actual engagement with deliberation,… moreJournal Article - 2026
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