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Considers the existence of a new class of professionals & the highly educated in GB, exploring the proposition that changes in the occupational structure entailed its development. Evidence is found in the fact that such changes are not merely quantitative & economic, but are accompanied by members' shared socialization experiences & bases of easy & frequent social interaction. In this light, the common experience of higher education is examined as the cement that binds the new class together. Its combination with occupation/profession (particularly in the social, cultural, or human services) is considered key to understanding political party identification or involvement in new social movements. It is further contended that these movements are carriers of moral ideals that rouse & disturb the political agenda & insert libertarian & egalitarian values into the realm of formal electoral politics & political activism. 40 References. C. Mariani

Abstract. Central to the 'new politics'is the increased salience of non‐material issues and a heightened concern with participation. 'New social movements'and 'new politics'parties are contingent manifestations of this new politics, which is also manifest in changed orientations toward established political parties. In most respects, the British appear no less well‐disposed toward the 'new politics'than their European neighbours. Yet Britain is distinguished by the absence of either a radical ecology movement or a successful 'new polities'party. British exceptionalism is explained by institutional arrangements which constrain the environmental movement toward integration rather than opposition, and an electoral system which polarises political competition and inhibits the development of new parties. One consequence is the preservation of the Labour Party as a beneficiary of, and vehicle for, the expression of much political dissent. As a result, in Britain the 'new polities'is to an unusual degree combined with 'old polities'.

In fast allen westeuropäischen Staaten entstanden seit den 70er Jahren verschiedene sogenannte Neue Soziale Bewegungen, neue Parteien, insbesondere ökologisch orientierte Parteien. In Großbritannien sind diese Phänomene nicht zu beobachten. Es werden verschiedene Ursachen für das geringe Hervortreten Neuer Sozialer Bewegungen in Großbritannien erörtert: institutionelle Arrangements, die insbesondere die Ökologiebewegung eher zur Integration als zur Opposition drängten, ein Wahlsystem, das hemmend auf die Entwicklung neuer Parteien wirkt, sowie die Aufnahme politischer Themen bei den etablierten Parteien aus den Neuen Sozialen Bewegungen, insbesondere bei der Labour Party. (AuD-Pls)

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 European countries in a post-national era -- 2 The European Community -- 3 Harmonization and the art of European government -- 4 Theses on a post-military Europe -- 5 Changing attitudes in the European Community -- 6 Support for new social movements in five western European countries -- 7 Environmentalism in Europe: an east-west comparison -- 8 Order, crisis and social movements in the transition from state socialism -- 9 Intellectuals and democratization in Hungary -- 10 State and society in Poland -- 11 Some thoughts on trust, collective identity, and the transition from state socialism -- Index

An examination of European political transformation which aims to analyze social and political change within the European Community, and to investigate the implications of a changing institutional framework within a disaggregated Eastern Europe. This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in political sociology and politics as well as relevant libraries and academics. It should have significant appeal to researchers and students in European studies and others with an interest in European integration.

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