Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in Four Democracies

1986/01/01 by Herbert Kitschelt, Herbert P. Kitschelt · 2,525 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Communism, Protests, Social Movements #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #Mobilization #New social movements #Political Conflict and Governance #Political economy #Political mobilization #Political opportunity #Political science #Politics #Social movement #Sociology

paper · doi:10.1017/s000712340000380x

published in British Journal of Political Science 16(1), 57-85 (Cambridge University Press)

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Abstract

Since the 1960s, successive protest movements have challenged public policies, established modes of political participation and socio-economic institutions in advanced industrial democracies. Social scientists have responded by conducting case studies of such movements. Comparative analyses, particularly cross-national comparisons of social movements, however, remain rare, although opportunities abound to observe movements with similar objectives or forms of mobilization in diverse settings.

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