Strategies of contentious action: A comparative analysis of the women's movements in Poland and the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2014.977321" target="_blank" >10.1080/14616696.2014.977321</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Strategies of contentious action: A comparative analysis of the women's movements in Poland and the Czech Republic

Original language description

This article compares the contemporary Czech and Polish women's movements and demonstrates that there are significant differences in their strategies. While the Polish women's movement is more active in mobilizing the population and uses both transactional and participatory strategies in order to achieve its goals, the Czech women's movement focuses more on transactional activities, such as lobbying, setting up cooperation with national and international organizations, and negotiating with the authorities, as well as on educational activities. The article explains why these differences occur and why during the last decade the Polish women's movement has attempted at mobilizing the population successfully, while the Czech women's movement has not triedto organize any mass mobilizations. Based on interviews with women's organizations in Poland and the Czech Republic, we argue that institutional factors can explain these differences. This includes such factors as the role of the reformed

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Societies

ISSN

1461-6696

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

404-422

UT code for WoS article

000369767600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84942373068