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Journal Article
Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in Four Democracies
Herbert P. Kitschelt
British Journal of Political Science
Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jan., 1986), pp. 57-85
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by: Cambridge University Press
https://www.jstor.org/stable/193981
Page Count: 29
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Topics: Antinuclear movements, Social movements, Protest movements, Nuclear power, Political parties, Social structures, Political protests, Nuclear structure, Nuclear power plants
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Abstract
Much of the literature on social movements has considered the intensity, strategies and outcomes of political protest as a consequence of levels of deprivation perceived by a constituency and of the internal skills of aggrieved groups in building protest organizations and coalitions. This paper, by contrast, draws upon the cases of antinuclear protest in France, Sweden, the United States and West Germany to show that 'political opportunity structures' are an important determinant of movement mobilization, strategies and policy impacts. More open political opportunity structures and greater political capacities to implement public policies covary with the choice of more adversarial or more co-operative movement strategies and the procedural, substantive and structural impacts of anti-nuclear protest on energy policy.
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