How Leaders Mobilize Workers

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-107-16517-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 697 g

This book explains why leaders chose social democracy, revolution, or moderate syndicalism to mobilize workers, and why it matters. In some countries, leaders have responded effectively to their political environment, while leaders in other countries have made ill-fitting choices. Vössing explains not only why leaders make fitting or ill-fitting choices of mobilization strategies, but also how their choices affect the success of that interest mobilization and subsequent political development. Using the most extensive compilation of quantitative data and historical sources, this book combines a thorough analysis of the formation of class politics in all twenty industrialized countries between 1863 and 1919 with a general theory of political mobilization. It integrates economic, political, and ideational factors into a comprehensive account which highlights the critical role of individual leaders, and which develops an innovative model for their decision-making process based on insights from both rational choice theory and psychology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vössing, Konstantin

Vössing, Konstantin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Anarchismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: a theory of national variation in interest mobilization; 2. Outcomes: dominant models of class politics and institutionalization success; 3. Environments: national differences in labor inclusion; 4. Agency: constraints, choice alternatives, and decision-making; 5. Choices: explaining variation in dominant models of class politics; 6. Consequences: explaining differences in institutionalization success; 7. Conclusion: causes and consequences of variation in interest mobilization.

Über Autor(innen)

Vössing, Konstantin
Konstantin Vössing is currently a professor of political science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He was previously John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Massachusetts, and then Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence.