Protest Publics

Self-Organized Publics in Mass Protests: An Introduction.- PART I: Dimensions of Protest Publics in the Recent Wave of Unrest.- Exploring Protest Publics: A New Conceptual Frame for Civil Participation Analysis.- Shoulder to Shoulder against Fascism: Publics in Gezi Protests.- Emergent Protest Publics in India and Bangladesh: A Comparative Study of Anti-Corruption and Shahbag Protests.- The Grammar of Protest Publics in Skopje, Macedonia, May 2015.- Retracing Public Protest in Portugal: A Generation in Trouble.- Justification in Protest Publics: The Homeless Workers' Movement in Brazil's Crisis.- So Strong, Yet So Weak: The Emergence of Protest Publics in Iceland in the Wake of the Financial Crisis.- Five Stars of Change: The Transformation of Italian Protest Publics into a Movement Party through Grillo's Blog.- PART II: Protest Publics and Political Change in Different Political Regimes.- Cross-national Comparison of Protest Publics' Roles as Drivers of Change: fromClusters to Models.- Protesters as the "Challengers of the Status-Quo" in Embedded Democracies: The Cases of Iceland, the United Kingdom and the United States.- Protest Publics as the "Watchdogs" of the Quality of Democracy in Global South.- Protest Publics as the Triggers of Political Changes in Hybrid Regimes: The Cases of Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt.- Protest Publics as Democratic Innovators in an Authoritarian Environment.- The Transforming Role of Protest Publics in Processes of Sociopolitical Change in the Global South and Southern Europe: From Occasional Challengers to Institutionalized Watchdogs.- Conclusion: The Common Features and Different Roles of Protest Publics in Political Contestation.

Nina Y. Belayeva is a Professor of Public Policy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She received her PhD in Law and Public Policy from the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Science. Her current research focuses on civil society and protest publics as global phenomena. She is teaching on civil society's influences on policymaking from a comparative perspective at Bologna University, the University of Turin, Science Po Grenoble, and at the European Regional Master Program in Human Rights and Democratic Governance (ERMA) at the University of Sarajevo. Her recent publications were on global citizenship and global identity, mass protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bolotnaya protests in Moscow. nbelyaeva.hse@gmail.com

Dmitriy G. Zaytsev is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. He is also a senior research fellow at the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research at the same university. He received his PhD in Political Science from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Science. His current research focuses on think tanks and analytical communities, as well as protest publics as drivers of socio-political change. He has published numerous chapters in books and edited volumes. zaytsevdi2@gmail.com


Victor A. Albert is an Associate Professor at the Public Policy Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. He received his PhD from La Trobe University (2013) with a dissertation on: The Promise of Participation, the Practice of Power: an ethnographic study of participatory institutions in Santo André, São Paulo. He is also the author of The Limits to Citizen Power: participatory democracy and the entanglements of the state (Pluto, 2016). victoralbert@gmail.com