.... The chapter proposes five broad categories of independent variables: national change agents, domestic administrative opportunity structures, domestic political opportunity structures, technological change, and European integration. institutionalism network analysis lobbying networking strategic learning...

... this plausible suggestion is premised upon a misperception that anarchism was predominantly a European phenomenon, which was surely not the case (see Hirsch & van der Walt 2010 ). ⁵ Or, political opportunities may be afforded to Europeans and are not available elsewhere, a possibility I explore...

...This book sets out to deepen the understanding of processes of comparative regional governance by investigating two historic regions (Wales and Brittany) in two neighbouring European Union states. The framework for analysis combines criteria drawn from institutions (and political opportunity...

... power social movements emergence of Bachrach P S and Baratz M Dahl R democratic equilibrium elite theorists Estes C L Griffith E S Hudson J and lowe S insider groups Jordan G Mills C W mobilisation oligarchic coalitions political opportunity structures Schattschneider E E Truman D B...

...Chapter 7 reflects on the key findings of the study. It explores the interaction of political opportunity structures, organisational resources and the cultural framing process which encompasses both the construction of collective identities and the framing of age-based policy and constructs...

... 0.315 Note: Two-tailed Pearson's correlation coefficients; ^** p< .01 ^* p < .05 ^† p<.10 Table 5.2 Mention of political opportunities in A-Infos histories by country...

... be found (most countries in the world, but especially in European and North American cities). Even though scholars have studiously avoided the contradictions and complications that anti-state movements present for their theories, numerous social movement ideas, including political opportunity, new social...