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

作者：Herbert P. Kitschelt · 发表于：British Journal of Political Science · 年份：1986 · DOI：10.1017/s000712340000380x · 被引用次数：2565 · 研究领域：Communism, Protests, Social Movements、Political Conflict and Governance、Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics

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.