Chapter 1 Self-Organized Publics in Mass Protests: An Introduction

Chapter 3 “Shoulder to Shoulder Against Fascism”: Publics in Gezi Protests

Chapter 7 Justification in Protest Publics: The Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil’s Crisis

Chapter 9 Five Stars of Change: The Transformation of Italian Protest Publics Through Grillo’s Blog

Chapter 11 Protesters as the “Challengers of the Status Quo” in Embedded Democracies: The Cases of Iceland, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Chapter 12 Protest Publics as the “Watchdogs” of the Quality of Democracy in the Polyarchies of the Global South

Chapter 14 Protest Publics as Democratic Innovators in Authoritarian Environments

Chapter 15 The Transforming Role of Protest Publics in Processes of Sociopolitical Change in the Global South and Southern Europe: From Occasional Challengers to Institutionalized Watchdogs

Chapter 16 Conclusion: The Common Features and Different Roles of Protest Publics in Political Contestation