ABSTRACT
This chapter fulfills an explanatory goal. It tests current explanatory frameworks of a culture of political violence by analyzing the post-2008 incidents in which anti-austerity movements’ stakeholders participated. There, the models which categorize a culture of political violence as a phenomenon to be accounted for are under scrutiny. The test is done for a theory-verification purpose to develop theories and for a theory-generation purpose to verify if and to what extent they explain why particular patterns of a culture of political violence emerged in the Eurozone of the age of austerity. Meanwhile, the analysis suggests adjustments to the existing models discussed within the literature. This chapter handles the second research problem of to what extent current explanatory frameworks explain why stakeholders of the post-2008 anti-austerity movements had particular patterns of a culture of political violence.
