Challenging the Political Order: New Social and Political Movements in Western Democracies

by Russell J. Dalton

Book Overview

The flowering of new movements concerned with the environment, women's rights, peace, and other pressing issues of advanced industrial societies has generated much scholarly and political attention over the past decade. To their supporters, these movements are seen as the vanguard of a new society; to their critics, new social movements represent a fundamental threat to the social and political order. This collection explores the challenge these movements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195208331
• ISBN13: 9780195208337
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"