Coalitions & Political Movements: The Lessons of the Nuclear FreezeThomas R. Rochon, David S. Meyer Twelve contributions apply recent theory on movements to the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s. Subject areas include the development of the freeze movement, its social and political impact, and the question of whether the movement simply disintegrated or was transformed into other forms of activism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
List of Tables and Figures ix | 1 |
Public Opinion | 25 |
Dilemmas of Organization in Peace Campaigns | 47 |
Transnational Activism in the Nuclear Weapons | 81 |
News Coverage of the Freeze Movement | 97 |
The Nuclear Freeze Movements Effect on Policy | 127 |
Arenas of Success and Failure | 163 |
Organizational Survival | 181 |
AntiNuclear Weapons Movements | 219 |
Toward a Coalitional Theory of Social | 237 |
Figures | 244 |
| 253 | |
List of Contributors | 269 |
About the Book 279 | |
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action activists administration's agenda American arms control arms control policy arms race buildup Central America Chapter citizens coalition Cold War concern Congress congressional cooperation Cortright coverage debate decline defense Democratic disarmament efforts election electoral elites foreign policy freeze movement freeze proposal freeze resolution goals grassroots impact influence interview by author involvement issue focus John MacDougall legislative lobbying Marullo mass media ment Meyer military missiles move movement activity national PMOs negotiations nuclear arms nuclear freeze nuclear freeze movement nuclear war nuclear weapons Nuclear Weapons Freeze NWFC officials organizational paign peace campaigns peace groups peace movement peace movement organizations peace organizations percent Pershing II perspective political opportunity polls pressure public opinion public support Randy Kehler Reagan administration resource mobilization Rochon SANE small PMOs social movement Soviet Union strategic arms Strategic Defense Initiative strategy structure survival tactics test ban tion U.S.-Soviet United vote