Publikationen Ruud Koopmanns
Selected Publications
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This book investigates an important source of the European Union's recent legitimacy problems. It shows how European integration is debated in mass media, and how this affects democratic inclusiveness. Advancing integration implies a shift in power between governments, parliaments, and civil society. Behind debates over Europe's 'democratic deficit' is a deeper concern: whether democratic politics can perform effectively under conditions of Europeanization and globalization. This study is based on a wealth of unique data from seven European countries, combining newspaper content analyses, an innovative study of Internet communication structures, and hundreds of interviews with leading political and media representatives across Europe. It is by far the most far-reaching and empirically grounded study on the Europeanization of media discourse and political contention to date, and a must-read for anyone interested in how European integration changes democratic politics and why European integration has become increasingly contested. | ||||
Contested Citizenship | ||||
This book demonstrates how national identity affects the dynamics of immigration. From international press coverage of the French government's attempt to prevent Muslims from wearing headscarves to terrorist attacks in Madrid and the United States, questions of cultural identity and pluralism are at the center of the world's most urgent events and debates. Presenting an unprecedented wealth of empirical research garnered during ten years of a cross-cultural project. "Contested Citizenship" addresses these fundamental issues by comparing collective actions by migrants, xenophobes, and antiracists in Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Revealing striking cross-national differences in how immigration and diversity are contended by different national governments, these authors find that how citizenship is constructed is the key variable defining the experience of Europe's immigrant populations. "Contested Citizenship" provides nuanced policy recommendations and challenges the truism that multiculturalism is always good for immigrants. Even in an age of European integration and globalization, the state remains a critical actor in determining what points of view are sensible and realistic - and legitimate - in society. | ||||
Bürgerschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Demokratie in Europa | ||||
Die Entwicklung einer europäischen Bürgerschaft, einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit und der Demokratie in der Europäischen Union sind Voraussetzung für Integration und Legitimation der sich erweiternden Europäischen Union. Die Beiträge analysieren den Entwicklungsstand von Demokratie und Bürgerbeteiligung, der europäischen Öffentlichkeit und der europäischen Integration im Spannungsfeld von EU, Nationen und Regionen. | ||||
Mobilization. The International Journal of Research in Social Movements, Protest, and Contentious Politics | ||||
(vol. 4, no. 2, 1999)
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Paradigmen der Bewegungsforschung | ||||
Protestbewegungen haben die politische Landschaft Deutschlands in den letzten Jahrzehnten maßgeblich mitgeprägt. In den 70er und 80er Jahren waren es die 'Neuen Sozialen Bewegungen' wie die Frauen-, die Friedens- und die Umweltbewegung, während es sich in den letzten Jahren eher um ausländerfeindliche Gewalttaten und rechtsextreme Aufmärsche handelte, die die öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zogen. Was können wir über diese Bewegungsformen sagen, und welche sozialwissenschaftlichen Erklärungsansätze gibt es? Dieser Band versucht, Antworten zu geben. Namhafte Autoren untersuchen die Neuen Sozialen Bewegungen bzw. den Rechtsextremismus jeweils unter verschiedenen Fragestellungen in vergleichender Hinsicht. Diese systematische Kopplung von Theorie und Empirie vermittelt zum einen den Erkenntnisstand deutscher und internationaler Theorien sozialen Protests, zum anderen leistet der Band eine theoriegeleitete Darstellung der beiden einflußreichsten Bewegungstypen der letzten Jahrzehnte in Deutschland. | ||||
Acts of Dissent | ||||
Although living conditions have improved throughout history, protest, at least in the last few decades, seems to have increased to the point of becoming a normal phenomenon in modern societies. Contributors to this volume examine how and why this is the case and argue that although problems such as poverty, hunger, and violations of democratic rights may have been reduced in advanced Western societies, a variety of other problems and opportunities have emerged and multiplied the reasons and possibilities for protest. | ||||
New Social Movements in Western Europe | ||||
This text combines theories of resource mobilization with an analysis of the structures of political opportunity. It provides a summary of the orientations of particular movements and of the significance of differing political regimes across Europe. | ||||
Democracy from Below | ||||
West Germany is generally considered the country where new social movements addressing themes such as ecology, peace, and women's rights found their strongest and most pronounced expression. This book shows how new social movements were shaped by the nature and development of the West German political system and how, in turn, these movements have made an important contribution to the consolidation and deepening of democracy in Germany. West Germany is generally considered the country where new social movements addressing themes such as ecology, peace, and women's rights found their strongest and most pronounced expression. This book shows how new social movements were shaped by the nature and development of the West German political system and how, in turn, these movements have made an important contribution to the consolidation and deepening of democracy in Germany. Democracy from Below is based on an elaboration of the political process approach to social movements. This perspective emphasizes the constraining and facilitating role of political opportunities provided by established politics for the mobilization of social movements as well as the embeddedness of individual social movements within broader waves of protest. Koopmans bases his study on new, extensive data on more than 3,000 protest events between 1965 and 1989 and on the characteristics of the most important organizations of the new social movements.The book also has a strong comparative focus, contrasting the West German case to similar data on social movement mobilization in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Democracy from Below will be of interest not only to students of social movements but also to those interested in comparative politics and contemporary German politics. In addition, social movement activists interested in questions of strategy and tactics will find the book useful. | ||||