%0 Journal Article %T Networks and Political Contention over Unemployment: a Comparison of Britain, Germany and Switzerland %+ Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CEVIPOF) %+ Department for Political Science %A Cinalli, Manlio %A Füglister, Katharina %< avec comité de lecture %Z 2441/3cr7jj61bs68cvg998thhh60i %@ 1086-671X %J Mobilization %I Unknown %P 259–276 %8 2008 %D 2008 %R 10.17813/maiq.13.3.p402571mjj74x074 %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/SociologyJournal articles %X This article focuses on networks that are built in the field of unemployment in three main European states: namely, Britain, Germany, and Switzerland. It analyzes channels of exchanges between political parties, trade unions, pressure groups, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), organizations of the unemployed, as well as main policy actors and institutions. The main aim is to compare cross-nationally the extent to which similar sets of actors in different national fields build different patterns of exchange, and the dynamic relationship between these patterns of exchange and unemployment-related mobilization. Networks variation is matched against cross-national differences of collective action. Networks, it is argued, are an additional and necessary dimension of any investigation of collective action. %G English %L hal-03572487 %U https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03572487 %~ SHS %~ SCIENCESPO %~ CNRS %~ AO-SOCIOLOGIE %~ SOCIOLOGIE %~ CEVIPOF