Doug Imig is associate professor of political science at the University of Memphis. Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology atCornell University.

Imig and Tarrow have assembled a group of scholars who are at the cutting edge of new methodologies and current political and social transformations. . . . Rich and provocative research. . . . Strongly recommended.

• Part 1 Part I: Studying a Moving Target: Theory and Data On European ContentionChapter 2 Studying Contention in an Emerging PolityChapter 3 Mapping the Europeanization of Contention: Evidence from a Quantitative Data AnalysisPart 4 Part II: European Policies and National ResponsesChapter 5 Trade Union Organizing at the European Level: The Dilemma of Borrowed ResourcesChapter 6 Framing Contention: Dutch and Spanish Farmers Confront the EUChapter 7 European Farmers and Their ProtestsPart 8 Part III: Lobbies or Movements?Chapter 9 Lobbying or Protest? Strategies to Influence EU Environmental PoliciesChapter 10 Multilevel Action Coordination in European Contentious Politics: The European Women's LobbyChapter 11 Weak Weapons of the Weak? Transnational Mobilization around MigrationPart 12 Part IV: The Formation of European ActorsChapter 13 Media Construction in the Dynamics of Euro-protestChapter 14 The European Conflict over Genetically-Engineered Crops, 1995-97Part 15 Part V: Comparisons and ConclusionsChapter 16 Contentious Politics in a Composite Polity

Doug Imig is associate professor of political science at the University of Memphis. Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology atCornell University.

Imig and Tarrow have assembled a group of scholars who are at the cutting edge of new methodologies and current political and social transformations. . . . Rich and provocative research. . . . Strongly recommended.

• Part 1 Part I: Studying a Moving Target: Theory and Data On European ContentionChapter 2 Studying Contention in an Emerging PolityChapter 3 Mapping the Europeanization of Contention: Evidence from a Quantitative Data AnalysisPart 4 Part II: European Policies and National ResponsesChapter 5 Trade Union Organizing at the European Level: The Dilemma of Borrowed ResourcesChapter 6 Framing Contention: Dutch and Spanish Farmers Confront the EUChapter 7 European Farmers and Their ProtestsPart 8 Part III: Lobbies or Movements?Chapter 9 Lobbying or Protest? Strategies to Influence EU Environmental PoliciesChapter 10 Multilevel Action Coordination in European Contentious Politics: The European Women's LobbyChapter 11 Weak Weapons of the Weak? Transnational Mobilization around MigrationPart 12 Part IV: The Formation of European ActorsChapter 13 Media Construction in the Dynamics of Euro-protestChapter 14 The European Conflict over Genetically-Engineered Crops, 1995-97Part 15 Part V: Comparisons and ConclusionsChapter 16 Contentious Politics in a Composite Polity