Social Movements during Cycles of Issue Attention
The Decline of the Anti-Nuclear Energy Movements in West Germany and the USA
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7092404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Joppke (0000-0002-4740-450X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-43 |
| Publication date | 1991-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/590834 |
| OpenAlex | W2331450164 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
This article analyses the impact of cultural processes of agenda setting on the rise and fall of social movements. Based on a comparison of the anti-nuclear energy movements in West Germany and the USA, I argue that shifts in public issue-attention can trigger the decline of movements and fuel the rise of other movements. When disarmament concerns became paramount in the early 1980s, the anti-nuclear energy movement collapsed in the USA and went through a mobilization crisis in West Germany. At the same time, broad peace or disarmament movements took the lead in the social movement sectors in both countries, surpassing the anti-nuclear energy movements on a similar cultural and political terrain. As movements that addressed collective risks inherent in industrial modernization, the anti-nuclear energy movements lacked a stable communal basis, rendering them especially vulnerable to external processes of agenda setting
Development economics · Disarmament · Economics · Modernization theory · Movement (music · New social movements · Peace movement · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Law
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,74 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |