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contentious politics  

Definition

  • Contentious politics, in the context of political science, means episodic, public, collective interaction among makers of claims and their objects when: (1) at least one government is a claimant, an object of claims, or a party to the claims, and (2) the claims would, if realized, affect the interests of at least one of the claimants or objects of claims. Roughly translated, the definition refers to collective political struggle. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Contentious Politics]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-CVH1053C-C

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