ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests a number of avenues for future research on austerity and protest. It based on quantitative data, primarily survey data either from the CCC project or from other projects or protest event data. The book shows the conditions under which an economic crisis in general and the austerity politics of the Great Recession in particular, lead to a political crisis. It focuses on economic contention and shows how at least in the Visegrad group of East European countries contention differs quite substantially. The book examines the effect of political environment on protester's motivations and in particular whether the instrumental motivations of European anti-austerity protest participants depend on structural and volatile political context in which these events were staged. It also focuses on young unemployed people in France by prioritizing the analysis of the impact of motivations upon their political mobilization.
