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Old and new politics: The Dutch peace movement and the traditional political organizations
Author(s) -
KRIESI HANSPETER,
PRAAG PHILIP
Publication year - 1987
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.1475-6765.1987.tb00880.x
Subject(s) - social movement , legitimacy , politics , movement (music) , intermediation , relevance (law) , context (archaeology) , political economy , institutionalisation , new social movements , political science , sociology , economics , law , paleontology , philosophy , biology , macroeconomics , aesthetics
. On the basis of data on the Dutch peace movement, we study the relationship between traditional organizations of political intermediation such as parties, unions and churches with a new social movement on the local level. After having argued for the relevance of the institutional context, the general structure of new social movements and the particular structure of the movement under consideration with regard to this relationship, we first present evidence confirming our claims that we are dealing with new social movement. Then we show that the relationships in question are quite elaborate confirming the hypothesis that political activity within traditional organizations and new social movements is to some extent cumulative. More generally, the results imply that the development of the peace movement and other new social movements in the Netherlands is not indicating a diminishing legitimacy of the Dutch political parties.