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Clandestine Political Violence

Donatella della Porta author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:22nd Jul '13

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This volume compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing, right-wing, ethnonationalist and religious fundamentalist.

This volume compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing (Italy and Germany), right-wing (Italy), ethnonationalist (Spain) and religious fundamentalist (Islamist clandestine organizations). Looking at these different types, Della Porta illuminates common causal mechanisms of clandestine political violence at their onset, during their persistence and at their demise.Clandestine Political Violence compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing (in Italy and Germany), right-wing (in Italy), ethnonationalist (in Spain) and religious fundamentalist (in Islamist clandestine organizations). Oriented toward theory building, Della Porta develops her own definition of clandestine political violence. Building on the most recent developments in social movement studies, Della Porta proposes an original interpretative model. Using a unique research design, she singles out some common causal mechanisms at the onset, during the persistence and at the demise of clandestine political violence. The development of the phenomenon is located within the interactions among social movements, countermovements and the state. She pays particular attention to the ways different actors cognitively construct the reality they act upon. Based on original empirical research as well as existing research in many languages, this book is rich in empirical evidence on some of the most crucial cases of clandestine political violence.

'Della Porta, one of the foremost scholars of social movements, turns her attention in this new work to the question of why groups resort to terrorism, or what she terms clandestine political violence … this is a necessary addition to any academic collection on terrorism, political violence or social movements. Summing up: highly recommended.' A. G. Reiter, Choice

ISBN: 9780521195744

Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 22mm

Weight: 590g

338 pages