Introduction

In: Revue française de science politique, Band 51, Heft 1-2, S. 19-25

Abstract

Militantism is generally only thought of as a subset of the study of partisanship & unions, contexts where political participation is understood as something conventional. In the 1990s, however, there has been more focus on militant approaches, & articles in current issue of the Revue Francaise de Science Politique all center on the issue of social agency. Militant organizations are less an object of study in these papers & more a place for observing a collection of individual actions, with the organization seen merely as the result of a punctual equilibrium resulting from the coexistence of individuals whose presence there stems from different backgrounds & different contexts. Contributions are introduced. D. Weibel