On the Future of Protest Politics in Western Democracies – A Critique of Barnes, Kaase et al., Political Action | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core (original) (raw)

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Perhaps the most striking feature of political scientists' discussions of political participation is that until very recently they have dealt with those forms of political activity conventional to liberal democratic political systems and focussed upon the constitutional apparatus of government to the virtual exclusion of social movements, direct action and the more aggresively unorthodox practice5 of riot, civil commotion and political violence. Insofar as such forms of action were considered political at all, it was as pathological phenomena at the margin of politics, matters which might more appropriately concern a psychologist than a political scientist.

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