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Collective Action and Relatively Powerless People in Europe and Asia

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This chapter serves as a brief introduction to the volume. It outlines the book’s rationale and provides an overview of the various chapters.

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    The notion of relatively powerless people draws on Michael Lipsky’s work (1968). It refers in essence to people’s weak volume of political resources and so to their dominated position in a “champ de pouvoir” – a domain of power relations (Mouchard 2010).

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    Unemployment rates in the Common Market of the 1960s and early 1970s were low (at 2% or lower), whereas annual growth rates were still in excess of 4% in pre-1973 Common Market economies such as France.

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    Following a 15-year period of sustained growth, the Irish economy contracted sharply in 2008 and the Irish government was compelled to seek the financial help of the European Central Bank, of the IMF. Very few public demonstrations took place in the country.

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    According to Balme and Chabanet (2008: 28), a “mobilization” may refer to two forms of action. The first type corresponds to expressive and conflict-oriented forms of action, whereas the second type is characterized as being far more discreet and consensual.

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  1. Department of Economics, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan

  2. School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Frédéric Royall

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    Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan

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    Frédéric Royall

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Andreosso-O’Callaghan, B., Royall, F. (2013). Collective Action and Relatively Powerless People in Europe and Asia. In: Andreosso-O'Callaghan, B., Royall, F. (eds) Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4653-4_1

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