Center–Periphery Alignments and Political Contention in Late-Modern Europe

Tarrow, Sidney

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511617072.004

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“…But single methods are often inadequate to reveal the workings of hard-to-detect mechanisms of contention. We believe that triangulating methods on a single research site or episode of contention can produce more robust results than even the most intense exploitation of any single method (Tarrow 2004). Here we draw on this ecumenical persuasion to describe a study in progress that seeks, through multiple methods, to account for variation in the role of social appropriation and political attribution in community-level mobilization in response to "siting decisions.…”

Section: Measuring Mechanisms By Triangulation: Social Appropriation mentioning

confidence: 98%

Methods for Measuring Mechanisms of Contention

2008

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A substantial intellectual movement has been growing in the social sciences around the adoption of mechanism-and process-based explanations as complements to variable-based explanations, or even as substitutes for them. But once we have recognized the validity and dignity of studying mechanisms and processes, what is the next step? Recently, both political scientists' and sociologists' discussions have begun to turn away from correlation to mechanism-based approaches to causation. But there is still a widespread assumption that mechanisms are unobservable. We maintain that ways can be developed to observe the presence or absence of mechanisms either directly or indirectly. In this paper, by way of example, we put forward four methods-two direct and two indirect-for measuring mechanisms of contention.

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Section: Measuring Mechanisms By Triangulation: Social Appropriation mentioning

confidence: 98%

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2008

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“…Although not directly imposing a constitutional requirement for devolution, the process of regionalization under the EU's structural policies creates incentives for regions to seek access to resources and decisionmaking, which in turn creates local institutions of external representation (Bartolini 2004, 24). Such developments affect the opportunity structure for political action (Brusis 2010;Tarrow 2004) with the potential to produce a new dimension of domestic political space. In this model of ethnoregional relations, territorial claims are correlated with the principal structure of domestic political conflict, the left-right divide (Van der Eijk and Franklin 2004, 36).…”

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An ethnonational perspective on territorial politics in the EU: east-west comparisons from a pilot study

Stefanova

2014

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This paper examines the relationship between European integration and ethnonational demands with the example of selected regions in the European Union (EU). It follows the theoretical premises of new regionalism and explores the ways in which ethnonational groups use the opportunities and resources of European governance to express their identities, material interests, and political demands. Methodologically, it conducts a plausibility probe of the potential effects of European integration on ethnonationalism by testing for regional differences in identities, interests, and political attitudes. The case studies are drawn from the UK (Wales and Scotland), Belgium (Flanders), Austria (Carinthia and Burgenland), Romania (Northwest and Center regions), and Bulgaria (South-Central and South-Eastern regions) as a representative selection of regional interests in the EU. The paper finds that European integration affects ethnonational groups by reinforcing identity construction in the direction of inclusiveness and diversity. Although regional actors are more supportive of the EU than the European publics in general, they also seek access to representation in the authority structures of the state. Based on these findings, the paper concludes that European integration facilitates a growing public acceptance of its resources, in parallel with persisting allegiances to the nation-state, the community, and ethnoregional distinctiveness.

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“…Others complicated not only the notion of, but also the dynamism between the edges and centers of nation and empire (Nugent 1997;Bartolini 2004;Tarrow 2004), and probed the idea that a central part of state-making, particularly in colonial and postcolonial contexts, was the production, not of bordered zones of authority and control, but rather ''geographical ambiguities'' in which the state's boundaries were deliberately fuzzy (e.g., Stoler 2006). Still others focused on transformations in notions of citizenship, particularly in the face of unprecedented transnational migration (Soysal 1994;Jacobson 1996;Balibar and Williams 2002;Basch et al 1994;Glick Schiller and Fouron 2001).…”

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Mobilities and enclosures after Seattle: politicizing borders in a “Borderless” world

Cunningham

2009

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This paper explores the complex and often contradictory ways in which state borders, and by extension territorial sovereignty, have become repoliticized over the past decade. In the 1990s, it was commonplace to describe globalization as auguring a new post-Westphalian world, one in which the nation-state and territorial forms of state sovereignty were disappearing. Both critics of and advocates for globalization made claims to a new ''borderless world'' and ''de-territorialization''-though from very different political vantage points. Yet territorial borders did not become uniformly less salient in the new world orders that emerged under neoliberalism, and in many cases, the securitization of international borders became more acute. Moreover, particularly post 9-11, states often deepened enforcement measures at their international boundary lines and ''border regimes'' have become critical to the expanding securitization of the nation-state and the capital interest of elites. Antiborder activists circa Seattle and beyond have played a central role in critiquing, politicizing, and drawing our attention to the border as a site of expanding state power, the logics of capital and the kinds of enclosures that continue to structure deep inequalities across the globe.

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Center–Periphery Alignments and Political Contention in Late-Modern Europe

Cited by 8 publications

References 243 publications

Methods for Measuring Mechanisms of Contention

Methods for Measuring Mechanisms of Contention

An ethnonational perspective on territorial politics in the EU: east-west comparisons from a pilot study

Mobilities and enclosures after Seattle: politicizing borders in a “Borderless” world

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