Protesters as the “Challengers of the Status Quo” in Embedded Democracies: The Cases of Iceland, the United Kingdom, and the United States

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Shmaltsev Nikita Iosifovich, Зайцев Д. Г.

This chapter analyses the nature of protests in Iceland, the United Kingdom and the United States in America from 2008 to 2016. We focus on the nature of these protests, forms of collective actions, main drivers of the protests and the resulting political changes. It allows us to determine that protests played the role of the challengers of the status quo — protested against the current political state in their countries and tried to develop alternatives by revoking practices of direct democ- racy, creating public spaces for discussions and promote their ideas among the broad public.

Ключевые слова: public participation, mass protests, United Kingdom, United States, protest public, Iceland

ПУБЛИКАЦИЯ ПОДГОТОВЛЕНА ПО РЕЗУЛЬТАТАМ ПРОЕКТА: Науки о сетях: фундаментальные сетевые исследования и аналитическая поддержка принятия решений для государства и бизнеса (2020)

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Protest Publics. Toward a New Concept of Mass Civic Action

Switzerland: Springer, 2019.