Nuclear Weapons, Protest, and American Political Parties, 1944 to 2020
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3758384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M T Heaney (0000-0003-1678-1043, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027642251331686 |
| OpenAlex | W4410059446 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 42 |
Nuclear weapons and protest have had a longstanding connection in the United States since the end of World War II. This research investigates the reciprocal relationship between U.S. political parties' positions on nuclear weapons and media coverage of international anti-nuclear protest. In doing so, it considers the interactive effects of parties and protests, variations in the dangers of nuclear weapons, and the effects of presidential incumbency. The results reveal that the Democratic Party may be more responsive to protests than is the Republican Party, though protesters likely react more directly to positions taken by the Republican Party. Furthermore, the evolution of anti-nuclear discourse from arms control to proliferation does not appear to have advantaged the international anti-nuclear movement. The article concludes with lessons on how the anti-nuclear movement could approach key issues and the two major U.S. political parties
Criminology · Nuclear weapon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Political and Social Dynamics · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense
The strategy of social protest
Reading public opinion
From mobilization to revolution
Party in the Street
The Party Decides
Outside Lobbying
Content Analysis
Computer-assisted Text Analysis
The Critical Mass in Collective Action
Asymmetric Politics
Party Position Change in American Politics
A Simple, Positive Semi-Definite, Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent Covariance Matrix
Issue Evolution
Twitter and Tear Gas
Threat (And Opportunity)
After the Rubicon
Patterns of Protest
Anti-Nuclear Activism and Electoral Politics in the 1963 Test Ban Treaty
Nuclear weapons and alliance institutions in the era of President Trump
Two Faces of Media Attention
Rough Draft of History
Protest Cycles and Political Process
The Importance of Attention Diversity and How to Measure It
Competing for the platform
Ballots and Barricades
How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter
What To Do (and Not to Do) with Time-Series Cross-Section Data
The Biographical Consequences of Activism
The Political Culture of the Democratic and Republican Parties
Taking official positions
Polarized Networks
Party Platforms, Mandates, and Government Spending
Opportunity Organizations and Threat-Induced Contention
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |