This book provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in Europe and examines the impact of welfare state regimes, conceived as political opportunity structures specific to this field, public debates and collective mobilizations in unemployment politics.

Autorentext
SIMONE BAGLIONI is a research fellow at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy BRITTA BAUMGARTEN is Research fellow of the Research Group Civil Society, Citizenship and political Mobilization at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany MICHEL BERCLAZ works in the field of public policies evaluation for the state of Geneva DIDIER CHABANET is Associate Research Fellow at the University Institute of European Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain MANLIO CINALLI is Associate Research Professor at Sciences Po Paris, France DONATELLA DELLA PORTA is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Italy KATHARINA FÜGLISTER is a Ph.D candidate and teaching assistant at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland MARCO GIUGNI is a researcher at the Laboratoire de recherches sociales et politiques appliquées (resop) and teaches at the Department of Political Science at the Universityof Geneva, Switzerland MARINA KALANDER BLOMQVIST is a public health specialist at the division for Research and Public Health, at Landstinget in Värmland, Sweden, and a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Karlstad University, Sweden CHRISTIAN LAHUSEN is Professor for Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Siegen, Germany ANNULLA LINDERS is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati, USA PAUL STATHAM is Professor of Political Sociology and Director of EurPolCom, the Centre for European Political Communications, hosted by the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

Inhalt
The Contentious Politics of Unemployment: An Introduction; M.Giugni PART I: CONTEXT AND OPPORTUNITIES Welfare States, Political Opportunities, and the Claim-Making in the Field of Unemployment Politics; M.Cinalli & M.Giugni The Protest on Unemployment: Forms and Opportunities; D.della Porta Networks and Political Contention over Unemployment: A Comparison of Britain, Germany and Switzerland; M.Cinalli & K.Füglister PART II: ACTORS AND DYNAMICS A Precarious Balance of Interests: Unions and the Unemployed in Europe; A.Linders & M.Kalander The Role of Civil Society Actors in the Contentious Politics of Unemployment; S.Baglioni Transcending Marginalization: The Mobilization of the Unemployed in France, Germany and Italy in a Comparative Perspective; S.Baglioni, B.Baumgarten, D.Chabanet & C.Lahusen PART III: UNEMPLOYMENT POLITICS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION Globalization and the Contentious Politics of Unemployment: An Empirical Assessment of the Denationalization and Convergence Theses;C.Lahusen, M.Giugni & M.Berclaz Europeanization and the EU Supranational Multi-Organizational Field over Unemployment: Elite-Dominance or New Opportunities?; P.Statham & M.Cinalli When the Unemployed Challenge the European Union: The European Marches as a Mode of Externalization of Protest; D.Chabanet The Contentious Politics of Unemployment: Some Conclusions; M.Giugni