Protests Under Trump, 2017–2021

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ID6209932
AuthorsJeremy Pressman (0000-0001-9752-756X, † Jeremy Pressman is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut and author of The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force (Manchester UP, 2020). Erica Chenoweth is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. At Harvard, Chenoweth directs the Nonviolent Action Lab..., corresponding author), Erica Chenoweth (0000-0003-3113-2439, † Jeremy Pressman is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut and author of The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force (Manchester UP, 2020). Erica Chenoweth is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. At Harvard, Chenoweth directs the Nonviolent Action Lab...), Tommy Leung († Jeremy Pressman is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut and author of The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force (Manchester UP, 2020). Erica Chenoweth is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. At Harvard, Chenoweth directs the Nonviolent Action Lab...), Tommy L F Leung (0000-0003-4628-3176, John F. Kennedy University), L Nathan Perkins († Jeremy Pressman is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut and author of The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force (Manchester UP, 2020). Erica Chenoweth is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. At Harvard, Chenoweth directs the Nonviolent Action Lab...), Jay Ulfelder († Jeremy Pressman is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut and author of The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force (Manchester UP, 2020). Erica Chenoweth is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. At Harvard, Chenoweth directs the Nonviolent Action Lab...)
Year2022
Volume27
Issue1
Pages13-26
Publication date2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMobilization An International Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1086-671X • E-ISSN: 1938-1514
PublisherMobilization Journal (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17813/1086-671x-27-1-13
OpenAlexW4221074504
LanguageEN
Citations received9

The Trump presidency featured a high volume of contentious mobilization. We describe the collection and aggregation of protest mobilization data from 2017 to 2021 and offer five observations. First, the protests were sustained at a high level throughout the Trump presidency, with the largest subset of protests positioned against Trump and the administration’s policies. Second, the grievances that drove the protests varied. Third, the National Student Walkout and the antiracism protests in 2020 had the broadest geographic spread of any reported protests in U.S. history. Fourth, the vast majority of protests did not have arrests or injuries; they were nonviolent protests. When there were arrests, most people who were arrested were committing nonviolent civil disobedience, not aggression or interpersonal violence. Fifth, in 2020, a sustained period of right-wing countermobilization began around the issues of COVID-19 lock-downs, policing and race, and Trump’s false claim about the presidential election

Aggression · Civil disobedience · Criminology · Mobilization · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Presidential system · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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