ABSTRACT
This chapter sheds light on the post-2008 patterns of a culture of political violence in the member states of the Eurozone. It defines the core category as a paradigm of using political violence in a political structure, which is determined by the temporal, subject, and subject matter indicators. Then, it formulates a conceptual framework of a culture of political violence that encompasses five critical indicators: political subjects that made use of political violence, mutual legitimation to the use, modes of the legitimation of the use, the intensity of physical political violence, and forms of political violence. The model is designed to uphold the validity of identification and comparisons between the states. Additionally, by working with the case studies of the post-2008 violent behavior of stakeholders of 14 anti-austerity movements, the framework undergoes a test. In establishing similarities and dissimilarities between the paradigms of using political violence, it elaborates the typology introducing values taken on by cultures of political violence of stakeholders of anti-austerity movements that entered the Eurozone. As a result, it solves the first research problem of what patterns of a culture of political violence stakeholders of the post-2008 anti-austerity movements had.
