This book analyzes long-term consequences of social movements in times of transition on the quality of democracy in ensuing regimes.

Donatella Della Porta is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Institute for Humanities and the Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, where she also directs the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos). Among her most recent publications are: Social Movements in Times of Austerity (2015), Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research (2014), Mobilizing for Democracy (2014), Can Democracy be Saved? (2013), Clandestine Political Violence (Cambridge, 2013) and the Blackwell Encyclopedia on Social and Political Movements (2013).

Acknowledgements; 1. Where did the revolution go? The outcomes of democratization paths; 2. Cycles of protest and the consolidation of democracy; 3. 'How great that you exist...': shifting conceptions of democracy; 4. 'It was a tsunami': shifting emotions; 5. 'Like a house of cards': time intensity and mobilization; 6. Civil society organizations: decline or growth?; 7. A normalization of politics?; 8. Socioeconomic rights and transition paths; 9. The protest process in the Arab Spring; 10. Arab Spring: which democratic qualities in Egypt and Tunisia?; 11. Where did the revolution go? Some conclusions; Bibliography; Index.