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Title:

Global justice activism and policy reform in Europe : understanding when change happens / edited by Peter Utting, Mario Pianta, and Anne Ellersiek.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xxii, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Social movements--Political aspects--Europe.
Europe--Economic policy.
Social responsibility of business--Europe.
Social justice.
Social change.

Other Authors:

Utting, Peter.
Pianta, Mario, 1956-
Ellersiek, Annekathrin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

List of annexes -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: understanding the activism-policy nexus / Anne Ellersiek, Mario Pianta, and Peter Utting -- Actors, institutions and networks -- Elite business power and activist responses / Peter Utting -- National policy regimes : implications for the activism-policy nexus / Daniela Barrier -- The potential and practice of civic networks / Jem Bendell and Anne Ellersiek -- Global social movement networks and the politics of change / Raffaele Marchetti and Mario Pianta -- The activism-policy nexus in practice -- Global networks on trade policy : the case of the WTO conference in Cancun / Federico Silva -- Advocacy for corporate accountability and trade justice : the role of "noble networks" in the United Kingdom / Jem Bendell and Anne Ellersiek -- Reforming agricultural and trade policy in France : the limits of multi-actor coalitions / Benoit Daviron and Tancr©·de Voituriez -- Debt relief and trade justice in Italy / Paolo Gerbaudo and Mario Pianta -- Dropping the debt? : British anti-debt campaigns and international development policy / Clare Saunders and Tasos Papadimitriou -- The struggle for third world debt relief in France / Rodrigo Conteras Osorio -- Global justice and/as global democracy : the UK campaign for a Tobin tax / James Brassett -- Campaign or "movement of movements?" : attac France and the currency transaction tax (CTT) / Edouard Morena -- How can activism make change happen? / Mario Pianta, Anne Ellersiek and Peter Utting -- Contributors -- Index.

Series:

Routledge advances in sociology ; 90

ISBN:

0415899133
9780415899130

OCLC:

(OCoLC)724641531

LCCN:

2012008991

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)