Marco Giugni
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Giugni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Giugni |
| SIGNATURE | GIUGNI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1421 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
The Transformation of Protest Politics
The central questions addressed in this Element are: How has protest politics changed over time, especially but not exclusively in the most recent times. And what are the implications and consequences of these transformations? In this vein, the Element identifies a number of processes of change as outlined in the literature, going from the expansion of the repertoires of contention to the normalization of protest and of the protesters, and the sh…
The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation
The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of political participation in all of its varied expressions. It covers a wide range of topics relating to the study of political participation from different disciplinary and methodological angles, such as the modes of participation, the role of the context as well as the determinants, processes, and outcomes of participation. The volume brings t…
Oxford Handbook of Political Participation
Environmental movements worldwide
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides an overview of environmental movements in Western Europe. It looks at the other side of what once was called the Iron Curtain and focuses on the development of environmental activism and protest in Central Eastern Europe after 1989. The book examines environmental movements in Asia, and focuses on the Arab world – the Mi…
Youth and Politics in Times of Increasing Inequalities
Handbook of Citizenship and Migration
Taking an integrated approach, this unique Handbook places the terms ‘citizenship' and ‘migration' on an equal footing, examining how they are related to each other, both conceptually and empirically
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements
This volume provides up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements, activism, and is a reference point for international work in the field. It offers an assessment of environmental movements around the world, macrostructural, microstructural and social-psychological dimensions, current trends and prospects for social change
Street Citizens: Protest Politics and Social Movement Activism in the Age of Globalization
What are protest politics and social movement activism today? What are their main features? To what extent can street citizens be seen as a force driving social and political change? Through analyses of original survey data on activists themselves, Marco Giugni and Maria T. Grasso explain the character of contemporary protest politics that we see today - the diverse motivations, social characteristics, values and networks that draw activists to e…
Blame and contention: How perceptions of the government’s role in the economic crisis shape patterns of political action
In this paper we analyse the extent to which perceptions of the government’s role in the economic crisis impacted on the political behaviour of European citizens. This includes contentious political activities such as attending public meetings, participating in demonstrations, and joining strikes, but also electoral behaviour in the form of voting against the incumbent. We examine data from 2015 since it allows us to examine European nations expe…
Citizen Politics in Times of Crisis
Political values and extra-institutional political participation: The impact of economic redistributive and social libertarian preferences on protest behaviour
Previous studies have found that left-wing and libertarian individuals are more likely to engage in extra-institutional political activism. However, due to a lack of suitable data, studies to date have not analysed the relative influence of economic redistributive and social libertarian values for the intensity of protest participation. By analysing data from a unique cross-national dataset on participants in mass demonstrations in seven countrie…
Jobless Citizens: Political Engagement of the Young Unemployed
This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the c
Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis
What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined, create a greater potential for protest? With protest movements and events such as the Indignados and the Occupy Movement receiving a great deal of attention in the media and in the popular imaginary in recent times, this path-breaking book offers a rigorously-researched, evidence-based set of chapter…
The Politics of Unemployment in Europe
Contents: Introduction: State and civil society responses to unemployment: welfare, conditionality, and collective action, Marco Giugni Unemployment and social protection, Bengt FurA[yen]ker Adapting employment policies to post-industrial labour market risks, Giuliano Bonoli Work and welfare: the rights and responsibilities of unemployment in the UK, Peter Dwyer and Nick Ellison The promises of labour: the practices of activating unemployment pol…
Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Policy Responses and Collective Action
Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis
Do Issues Matter? Anti-Austerity Protests’ Composition, Values, and Action Repertoires Compared
An important wave of anti-austerity protests has swept across Western Europe in recent years. We can thus distinguish between three different types of protest occurring in Western Europe recently: “old” issue protests, relating to the trade union and labor movement; “new” issue protests, relating to culture and identity issues; anti-austerity protests, emerging directly in reaction to austerity measures and cuts enacted in the current period. Fol…
Collective Responses to the Economic Crisis in the Public Domain: Myth or Reality
We challenge the common wisdom that the Great Recession has produced radical changes in political behavior. Accordingly, we assess the extent to which the crisis has spurred protest activities and given socioeconomic issues a higher saliency in public debates. We also assess how far the crisis has provided a more prominent place for economic and labor actors as subject actors, a more prominent place of economic and labor actors as object actors, …
Religious minorities and secularism: An alternative view of the impact of religion on the political values of Muslims in Europe
This paper proposes an alternative explanation of Muslims’ endorsement of secular values based on their belonging to religious minorities. We argue that, contrary to what is often asserted in both the academic literature and the public debate, Muslims’ endorsement of secular values is not simply a matter of strong individual religiosity, but may also result from belonging to a religious minority. We suggest that this group-level variable may expl…
Electoral participation of Muslims in Europe: Assessing the Impact of Institutional and Discursive Opportunities
Protest participation and economic crisis: The conditioning role of political opportunities
The economic crisis that started in 2008 has negatively affected European nations to different degrees. The sudden rise in demonstrations particularly in those countries most hard hit by the crisis suggests that grievance theories, dismissed in favour of resource‐based models since the 1970s, might have a role to play in explaining protest behaviour. While most previous studies have tested these theories at the individual or contextual levels, it…
Peace Movements
Environmental Movements in Advanced Industrial Democracies: Heterogeneity, Transformation, and Institutionalization
Environmental movements are networks of informal interactions that may include individuals, groups, and organizations engaged in collective action motivated by shared identity or concern about environmental issues. This article reviews literature on environmental movements (including antinuclear energy movements) according to four main aspects: the social bases and values underlying the movements' mobilization, the resources supporting their mobi…
The Consequences of Social Movements
Social movements have attracted much attention in recent years, both from scholars and among the wider public. This book examines the consequences of social movements, covering such issues as the impact of social movements on the life course of participants and the population in general, on political elites and markets, and on political parties and processes of social movement institutionalization. The volume makes a significant contribution to r…
The consequences of social movements: Taking stock and looking forward
Citizens of both democratic and authoritarian countries seem to become less supportive of those in power and more willing to use non-conventional forms of collective action for putting pressure on authorities. This was the case, for example, during the past few years, with the major upsurges of protest, in Eastern Europe (Coloured Revolutions), in the Middle East (Arab Spring), in Southern Europe (the Indignados in Spain, the Agonaktismenoi in Gr…
Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe
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 c…
How Social Movements Matter
Protest participation and economic crisis: The conditioning role of political opportunities
The economic crisis that started in 2008 has negatively affected European nations to different degrees. The sudden rise in demonstrations particularly in those countries most hard hit by the crisis suggests that grievance theories, dismissed in favour of resource‐based models since the 1970s, might have a role to play in explaining protest behaviour. While most previous studies have tested these theories at the individual or contextual levels, it…
Useless Protest? A Time-Series Analysis of the Policy Outcomes of Ecology, Antinuclear, and Peace Movements in the United States, 1977-1995
I confront three models of the policy impact of social movements with data on the mobilization of ecology, antinuclear, and peace movements in the United States between 1975 and 1995 by means of time-series analysis: the direct-effect model, the indirect-effect model, and the joint-effect model. My analysis suggests that social movements have little, if any, impact on public policy and that, if they are to have an impact, it depends on the combin…
Migrant mobilization between political institutions and citizenship regimes: A comparison of France and Switzerland
This article focuses on the political claims made by immigrants and ethnic minorities in France and Switzerland. We look at cross‐national variations in the overall presence of immigrants and ethnic minorities in the national public space, and the forms and content of their claims. Following a political opportunity approach, we argue that claim‐making is affected both by institutional opportunities and by national models of citizenship. The civic…
Social Protest and Policy Change: Ecology, Antinuclear, and Peace Movements in Comparative Perspective
Resilient or Adaptable Islam: Multiculturalism, Religion and Migrants' Claims-Making for Group Demands in Britain, the Netherlands and France
This article investigates multiculturalism by examining the relationship between migrants’ group demands and liberal states’ policies for politically accommodating cultural and religious difference. It focuses especially on Islam. The empirical research compares migrants’ claims-making for group demands in countries with different traditions for granting recognition to migrants’ cultural difference – Britain, France and the Netherlands. Overall, …
Institutional and Discursive Opportunities for Extreme-Right Mobilization in Five Countries
Inspired by spatial theories of political behavior and by work on the impact of immigration on national identity, in this article we propose an explanation of the extreme right's claim making based on the interplay of three factors: national models of citizenship, the dynamics of political alignments and party competition, and the strategic/organizational repertoires of the extreme right, in particular the electoral strength of extreme-right part…
Political Opportunities: From Tilly to Tilly
A few years ago, Goodwin and Jasper (2004) depicted the political process approach to social movements as the dominant paradigm in the study of social movements and contentious politics.The concept of political opportunities lies at the core of this approach.Political opportunities can be defined broadly as "consistent but not necessarily formal, permanent, or national signals to social or political actors which either encourage or discourage the…
Under The Spotlight: The Impact of Media Attention on Protest Policing
Explanations of protest policing have neglected the "spotlight of the media." Based on data on repression and its media coverage in four Swiss cities from 1965 to 1994, our findings suggest that the mass media do have an impact on levels and forms of repression, along with political opportunity dimensions and levels of disruption. We identify two mechanisms. First, we show that the symbolic battles waged by protest groups and their outcomes affec…
Political opportunities, citizenship models and political claim-making over Islam
This article engages with the systematic analysis of two main dimensions of political opportunities—namely institutional opportunities and discursive opportunities—so as to appraise their impact upon claim-making in the field of Islam. We account for cross-national variations of claim-making in terms of (1) visibility of Muslims, (2) use of collective action, and (3) salience of cultural issues in five main European countries of Muslim settlement…
The Policy Impact of Social Movements: A Replication Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis
This article reanalyzes the data of a previous study on the policy impact of antinuclear, ecology, and peace movements in three countries with the aim of replicating its findings. Our goal is to see whether using a different analytical technique will yield similar results. The previous study used a regression approach to time-series analysis. Here, we use qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to analyze the previous study's data. Specifically, w…
Public discourses about Muslims and Islam in Europe
This article presents an overview of public discourse about Muslims in Europe, following work conducted between 2009 and 2012 by a consortium of six European research teams based in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland (EURISLAM project, funded under the EU FP7). In so doing, the article introduces a number of themes that are tackled in other articles of the same special issue. The attention is focused on the more i…
Gender Gap and Turnout in the 2003 Federal Elections
We examine the gender gap in turnout in Switzerland by analysing the 2003 federal elections. Despite being a standard component in electoral studies, the gender variable is, in most cases, only used as a control variable and its effects and interaction are too often under-analysed. We focus on individual-level factors by looking at three types of explanations for the gender gap: (1) resources, (2) political motivations and attitudes, and (3) soci…
Welfare States, Political Opportunities, and the Mobilization of the Unemployed: A Cross-National Analysis
This article follows a revised political opportunity approach to argue that mobilization of underprivileged groups is constrained by the political opportunity structures provided by the institutional context of the country in which they act. Contrary to traditional opportunity theories, it is suggested that their mobilization also depends on a set of opportunities specific to the political or issue field most directly addressed by their claims. I…
Electoral participation of Muslims in Europe: Assessing the Impact of Institutional and Discursive Opportunities
Blame and contention: How perceptions of the government’s role in the economic crisis shape patterns of political action
In this paper we analyse the extent to which perceptions of the government’s role in the economic crisis impacted on the political behaviour of European citizens. This includes contentious political activities such as attending public meetings, participating in demonstrations, and joining strikes, but also electoral behaviour in the form of voting against the incumbent. We examine data from 2015 since it allows us to examine European nations expe…
Does Associational Involvement Spur Political Integration? Political Interest and Participation of Three Immigrant Groups in Zurich
This article looks at the determinants of the political integration of migrants at the local level, focusing on two dimensions of political integration: political interest (attitudinal dimension) and political participation (behavioral dimension). Based on a representative survey among Italians, Kosovars, and Turks in the city of Zurich, we tested the thesis advanced by the social capital approach which posits a link between membership in volunta…
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements
This volume provides up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements, activism, and is a reference point for international work in the field. It offers an assessment of environmental movements around the world, macrostructural, microstructural and social-psychological dimensions, current trends and prospects for social change
Political values and extra-institutional political participation: The impact of economic redistributive and social libertarian preferences on protest behaviour
Previous studies have found that left-wing and libertarian individuals are more likely to engage in extra-institutional political activism. However, due to a lack of suitable data, studies to date have not analysed the relative influence of economic redistributive and social libertarian values for the intensity of protest participation. By analysing data from a unique cross-national dataset on participants in mass demonstrations in seven countrie…
Homogenizing "Old" and "New" Social Movements: A Comparison of Partipants in May Day and Climate Change Demonstrations
We assess whether the distinction between old and new social movements still holds by examining the social class and value orientations of participants in old and new social movement protests. We argue that new cleavages have emerged from globalization, affecting not only electoral politics, but also contentious politics, and thereby having a homogenization effect on the structural basis of movements of the left. Moreover, we hypothesize that tra…
New challenges for the welfare state: The emergence of youth unemployment regimes in E urope
In this article we discuss the emergence of ‘youth unemployment regimes’ in E urope, that is, a set of coherent measures and policies aimed at providing state responses to the problem of unemployment and, more specifically, youth unemployment. We classify these measures and policies along two main dimensions: unemployment regulations and labour market regulations. Using original data, we show how seven European countries locate on these two dimen…
Religious minorities and secularism: An alternative view of the impact of religion on the political values of Muslims in Europe
This paper proposes an alternative explanation of Muslims’ endorsement of secular values based on their belonging to religious minorities. We argue that, contrary to what is often asserted in both the academic literature and the public debate, Muslims’ endorsement of secular values is not simply a matter of strong individual religiosity, but may also result from belonging to a religious minority. We suggest that this group-level variable may expl…
Associational Involvement, Social Capital and the Political Participation of Ethno-Religious Minorities: The Case of Muslims in Switzerland
This paper looks at the determinants of the political participation of Muslims. We assess the impact of associational involvement on their overall political participation and their involvement in protest activities. We do so using original survey data consisting of a random sample of Muslim residents in Switzerland. Our analysis provides support to the argument that associational involvement is a strong predictor of political participation. The f…
The Other Side of the Coin: Explaining Crossnational Similarities Between Social Movements
This exploratory essay provides a general framework for the study of crossnational similarities among social movements by looking at three broad social processes: globalization, structural affinity, and diffusion. Each of these concepts is at the core of three apparently rival explanations of movement similarities. The globalization model explains similarities among social movements as a product of similar movement reactions to transnational poli…
The Other Side of the Coin: Explaining Crossnational Similarities Between Social Movements
This exploratory essay provides a general framework for the study of crossnational similarities among social movements by looking at three broad social processes: globalization, structural affinity, and diffusion. Each of these concepts is at the core of three apparently rival explanations of movement similarities. The globalization model explains similarities among social movements as a product of similar movement reactions to transnational poli…
Under The Spotlight: The Impact of Media Attention on Protest Policing
Explanations of protest policing have neglected the "spotlight of the media." Based on data on repression and its media coverage in four Swiss cities from 1965 to 1994, our findings suggest that the mass media do have an impact on levels and forms of repression, along with political opportunity dimensions and levels of disruption. We identify two mechanisms. First, we show that the symbolic battles waged by protest groups and their outcomes affec…
Political altruism: Solidarity movements in international perspective
Political Altruism? Deals with participation in political activities aimed at defending the rights of other individuals and groups, such as asylum seekers, immigrant workers, populations of Third World countries, and people whose fundamental human rights are being harmed. Solidarity movements have become an important collective actor in contemporary western societies, yet virtually no scholarly work up to now has addressed them theoretically and …
L'impact des mouvements écologistes, antinucléaires et pacifistes sur les politiques publiques: Le cas des États-Unis, de l'Italie et de la Suisse, 1975-1995
Marco Giugni, L'impact des mouvements écologistes, antinucléaires et pacifistes sur les politiques publiques: Le cas des États-Unis, de l'Italie et de la Suisse, 1975-1995, Revue française de sociologie, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 2001), pp. 641-668
Between Post‐nationalism and Neo‐institutionalism: The Structuring of Public Debates in Switzerland in the Field of Immigration and Ethnic Relations
This article attempts to assess the relevance of post‐nationalist and neo‐institutionalist theories to explain the structuring of public debates on immigration and ethnic relations in Switzerland. To escape the contradictory debate existing between proponents of these two theoretical perspectives, but above all to improve our knowledge of processes of globalization and of resistance by nation‐states in the field of migrations, we propose a system…
Ancien et nouvel institutionnalisme dans l’étude de la politique contestataire
Cet article s’intéresse à l’institutionnalisme dans l’étude de la politique contestataire. Nous faisons une distinction entre un ancien institutionnalisme qui met l’accent avant tout sur le rôle des institutions politiques et des opportunités institutionnelles (accès au système politique, configuration du pouvoir, stratégies des autorités, etc.), d’un côté, et un nouvel institutionnalisme qui se propose de réintroduire la notion de culture ainsi …
Social Protest and Policy Change: Ecology, Antinuclear, and Peace Movements in Comparative Perspective
Migrant mobilization between political institutions and citizenship regimes: A comparison of France and Switzerland
This article focuses on the political claims made by immigrants and ethnic minorities in France and Switzerland. We look at cross‐national variations in the overall presence of immigrants and ethnic minorities in the national public space, and the forms and content of their claims. Following a political opportunity approach, we argue that claim‐making is affected both by institutional opportunities and by national models of citizenship. The civic…
Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe
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 c…
Institutional and Discursive Opportunities for Extreme-Right Mobilization in Five Countries
Inspired by spatial theories of political behavior and by work on the impact of immigration on national identity, in this article we propose an explanation of the extreme right's claim making based on the interplay of three factors: national models of citizenship, the dynamics of political alignments and party competition, and the strategic/organizational repertoires of the extreme right, in particular the electoral strength of extreme-right part…
Resilient or Adaptable Islam: Multiculturalism, Religion and Migrants' Claims-Making for Group Demands in Britain, the Netherlands and France
This article investigates multiculturalism by examining the relationship between migrants’ group demands and liberal states’ policies for politically accommodating cultural and religious difference. It focuses especially on Islam. The empirical research compares migrants’ claims-making for group demands in countries with different traditions for granting recognition to migrants’ cultural difference – Britain, France and the Netherlands. Overall, …
Récits, imaginaires collectifs et formes d'action protestataire: Une approche constructiviste de la contestation antiraciste
Cet article vise à repenser l’influence de la culture sur les phénomènes contestataires par le biais des récits sociaux et imaginaires collectifs. Les narrations collectives mettent à disposition un stock spécifique de ressources culturelles et symboliques, elles façonnent les identités des acteurs et, finalement, elles dessinent des opportunités discursives qui facilitent ou, au contraire, limitent l’engagement et l’expression politique des acte…
Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion
Dialogues on Migration Policy
Dialogues on Migration Policy brings together leading American and European scholars of immigration politics to address migration policy. Editors Marco Giugni and Florence Passy's aim to present a number of informed 'dialogues' addressing three main theoretical concerns in this field: the role of the national state in a globalizing world, the determinants of policy change, and the role of collective interests in migration policy. Adopting an unco…
Gender Gap and Turnout in the 2003 Federal Elections
We examine the gender gap in turnout in Switzerland by analysing the 2003 federal elections. Despite being a standard component in electoral studies, the gender variable is, in most cases, only used as a control variable and its effects and interaction are too often under-analysed. We focus on individual-level factors by looking at three types of explanations for the gender gap: (1) resources, (2) political motivations and attitudes, and (3) soci…
Useless Protest? A Time-Series Analysis of the Policy Outcomes of Ecology, Antinuclear, and Peace Movements in the United States, 1977-1995
I confront three models of the policy impact of social movements with data on the mobilization of ecology, antinuclear, and peace movements in the United States between 1975 and 1995 by means of time-series analysis: the direct-effect model, the indirect-effect model, and the joint-effect model. My analysis suggests that social movements have little, if any, impact on public policy and that, if they are to have an impact, it depends on the combin…
The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: An Introduction
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Marco Giugni; The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: An Introduction. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 September 2008; 13 (3): 249–257. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.13.3.f34811835055733w Download citation fil…
Struggling for a Social Europe: Neoliberal Globalization and the Birth of a European Social Movement
Welfare States, Political Opportunities, and the Mobilization of the Unemployed: A Cross-National Analysis
This article follows a revised political opportunity approach to argue that mobilization of underprivileged groups is constrained by the political opportunity structures provided by the institutional context of the country in which they act. Contrary to traditional opportunity theories, it is suggested that their mobilization also depends on a set of opportunities specific to the political or issue field most directly addressed by their claims. I…
The challenge of measuring immigrant origin and immigration-related ethnicity in Europe
Political Opportunities: From Tilly to Tilly
A few years ago, Goodwin and Jasper (2004) depicted the political process approach to social movements as the dominant paradigm in the study of social movements and contentious politics.The concept of political opportunities lies at the core of this approach.Political opportunities can be defined broadly as "consistent but not necessarily formal, permanent, or national signals to social or political actors which either encourage or discourage the…
The Policy Impact of Social Movements: A Replication Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis
This article reanalyzes the data of a previous study on the policy impact of antinuclear, ecology, and peace movements in three countries with the aim of replicating its findings. Our goal is to see whether using a different analytical technique will yield similar results. The previous study used a regression approach to time-series analysis. Here, we use qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to analyze the previous study's data. Specifically, w…
Protest Politics in a Changing Political Context: Switzerland, 1975–2005
This article analyses if and how recent changes within the Swiss political system have influenced different aspects of protest politics (e.g. level, issues, action repertoires, and transnationalization). We argue that opportunities for mobilization have emerged in recent years due to changes in the institutionalized political context and that these changes have at least partially led to a resurgence of protest activities in the early 2000s. In a …
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Conclusion: From Interactions To Outcomes In Social Movements
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