TY - BOOK AU - della Porta, Donatella, TI - Clandestine Political Violence / [electronic resource] T2 - Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics SN - 9781139043 AV - JC328.6 .D445 2013 U1 - 332.4/2 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Political violence KW - Violence N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015) N2 - Clandestine Political Violence compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing (in Italy and Germany), right-wing (in Italy), ethnonationalist (in Spain) and religious fundamentalist (in Islamist clandestine organizations). Oriented toward theory building, Della Porta develops her own definition of clandestine political violence. Building on the most recent developments in social movement studies, Della Porta proposes an original interpretative model. Using a unique research design, she singles out some common causal mechanisms at the onset, during the persistence and at the demise of clandestine political violence. The development of the phenomenon is located within the interactions among social movements, countermovements and the state. She pays particular attention to the ways different actors cognitively construct the reality they act upon. Based on original empirical research as well as existing research in many languages, this book is rich in empirical evidence on some of the most crucial cases of clandestine political violence UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139043144 ER -