Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] Fwd: NEW BOOK: ‘Joining Political Organisations’ by Laura Morales, ECPR Press
Inizio messaggio inoltrato:
> Da: Laura Morales <laura.morales@???>
> Data: 06 maggio 2009 2:54:46 GMT+02:00
> A: destinatarios-no-revelados:;
> Oggetto: NEW BOOK: ‘Joining Political Organisations’ by Laura
> Morales, ECPR Press
> Rispondi a: laura.morales@???
>
> (SORRY FOR CROSS-POSTINGS AND FOR THE SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION)
> Dear colleagues and friends,
>
> I thought you might be interested in learning that the ECPR Press
> has recently published my new book ‘Joining Political Organisations.
> Institutions, Mobilisation and Participation in Western
> Democracies’. Below you will find some details about the book and
> you can find the book cover, table of contents and the first chapter
> as a sample at http://tinyurl.com/morales1. The book is currently
> under special launch promotion only for the recipients of this mail
> with a 20% discount (£21.60, RRP is £27) until 31st May 2009.
>
> ABSTRACT
>
> Political organisations and clubs structure contemporary politics.
> From political parties, to environmental organisations, citizens
> join a host of associations to influence policy-making and the
> political agenda. But, why do citizens join political organisations
> much more in some western democracies than in others? Laura Morales
> explains that there are three types of participatory patterns – a
> North American model, with extensive membership levels and a
> reasonably high level of activism within organisations; a northern,
> or Protestant, European pattern, that combines extensive membership
> levels and fundamentally passive involvement; and a south European
> model, where low levels of membership are compensated by intense
> activism. Drawing on a large number of crossnational surveys and
> datasets, Morales shows that huge cross-national variations in
> political membership are not so much related to social or
> attitudinal differences between these countries’ citizens, and are
> explained to a great extent by the structure of the political system
> of each nation.
>
> ABOUT THE BOOK
>
> ‘This is a major and ambitious study. Laura Morales...manages to
> effect a broad ranging cross-national comparison, as well as an over-
> time analysis, yielding a host of valuable insights into the causes
> and implications of political membership.’ Peter Mair (European
> University Institute)
>
> ‘This is a very impressive volume in several respects. Its approach
> connects fields of research which usually do not take note of each
> other and more specifically, it introduces concepts and ideas of
> social movement research and of comparative politics into the study
> of political participation. Also, and most importantly, the author
> has adopted what one could call a ‘comparative contextual approach’
> to the study of political participation, which proves to be very
> effective in throwing new light on this subject.’ Hanspeter Kriesi
> (University of Zurich)
>
> READERSHIP
>
> The book addresses various issues that are central to the fields of
> Comparative Politics, Political Behaviour, and Social Movements, and
> hence should be of interest to scholars and students in these fields
> at the intersection between Political Science and Sociology.
>
> ABOUT THE AUTHOR
>
> Laura Morales is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social
> Change of the University of Manchester. She has previously taught
> Political Science and Research Methods at Universidad Autónoma de
> Madrid (2001-2003), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2003), and
> the Universidad de Murcia (2003-2007). She was awarded with the ECPR
> and the Spanish Political Science Association prizes for the best
> Ph.D. thesis in 2004. Her interests lie, especially, in the areas of
> electoral behaviour, political participation, and comparative
> politics. She has published extensively on associational
> involvement, political participation, and political parties.
>
> MORE INFORMATION AND ORDERS
>
> http://www.ecprnet.eu/publications/morales.asp >
> Also for sale in forthcoming conferences: APSA Toronto 2009, ECPR
> Potsdam 2009.
>
> ISBN 13: 978-0-9552488-9-4
> 264 pages, ECPR Press, April 2009.
>
> RRP: £27.00. Special Offer: £21.60 (until 31st May 2009)
> --
> ----------------------------
> Dr. Laura Morales
> Research Fellow &
> Coordinator of the LOCALMULTIDEM project
> http://www.um.es/localmultidem >
> Institute for Social Change
> 4th floor, Arthur Lewis Building
> University of Manchester
> Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
> tel: (+44) (0) 161 275 4903 [PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN PHONE NUMBER]
> email: laura.morales@???
> http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/politics/about/staff/morales/ >
> LEARN ABOUT MY NEW BOOK 'JOINING POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS' http://www.ecprnet.eu/publications/book_details.asp?bookID=21 >
