Protesters as the “Challengers of the Status Quo” in Embedded Democracies: The Cases of Iceland, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Nikita Shmaltsev and Dmitry G. Zaytsev ()
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Nikita Shmaltsev: National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE)
Dmitry G. Zaytsev: National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE)

A chapter in Protest Publics, 2019, pp 183-201 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter analyzes the nature of protests in Iceland, the United Kingdom, and the United States from 2008 to 2016. We focus on the nature of these protests, forms of collective actions, main drivers of the protests, and the resulting political changes. It allows us to determine that protests played the role of the challengers of the status quo—protested against the current political state in their countries and tried to develop alternatives by revoking practices of direct democracy, creating public spaces for discussions and to promote their ideas among the broad public.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05475-5_11

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