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Politický aktivismus v České republice: Sociální hnutí a občanská společnost v období transformace a evropeizace
| Title in English | Political Activism in the Czech Republic: Social Movements and Civil Society in the Eras of Transformation and Europeanization |
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | Notwithstanding the demonstrated lack of individual participation, a relatively robust organizational infrastructure of civil society has developed in many Central-East European countries. As available data suggest, this infrastructure provided the basis for a particular type of relatively high-capacity political activism to emerge in the region. In order to define, if not explain, the specific nature of this Central-East European non-participatory activism, Petrova and Tarrow have come up with the notion of "transactional activism". What factors made it possible for transactional political activism to develop in Central-Eastern Europe remains to be explained. Hence the main puzzle of this text. Focusing on the Czech case, the present study will show what has facilitated the emergence of transactional activists in the country. Before the explanation is presented in the second part of the study, the situation of Czech activism is mapped out in its first part. In order to outline the configuration of political mobilization in the Czech Republic after 1993, this study employs the tools of protest event analysis. |
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