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Unwanted children: Political violence and the cycle of protest in Italy, 1966–1973
Author(s) -
PORTA Donatella DELLA,
TARROW Sidney
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1986.tb00852.x
Subject(s) - newspaper , cycle of violence , politics , ideology , action (physics) , political action , political violence , social movement , political economy , political science , criminology , sociology , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , law , domestic violence , medicine , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics
. The article focuses on the cycle of protest that developed in Italy during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some hypotheses on the evolution of the repertoires of action are tested with the aim of explaining the emergence of political violence during a cycle of protest. Newspaper‐based data are presented on the proportional presence of violent forms of action, on the social and ideological groups involved in political violence, and on the grievances expressed during violent protests. The widespread political violence that developed in Italy in the early 1970s is explained as an internally differentiated strategic adaptation within the social movement sector, during a cycle of protests that was disorderly but far from violent.