Protest Publics: Toward a New Concept of Mass Civic Action

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: from Clusters 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.