Mobilizing Against Nuclear Energy

A Comparison of Germany and the United States

Christian Joppke

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520078130
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520912526
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

In the past two decades young people, environmentalists, church activists, leftists, and others have mobilized against nuclear energy. Anti-nuclear protest has been especially widespread and vocal in Western Europe and the United States. In this lucid, richly documented book, Christian Joppke compares the rise and fall of these protest movements in Germany and the United States, illuminating the relationship between national political structures and collective action. He analyzes existing approaches to the study of social movements and suggests an insightful new paradigm for research in this area. Joppke proposes a political process perspective that focuses on the interrelationship between the state and social movements, a model that takes into account a variety of forces, including differential state structures, political cultures, movement organizations, and temporal and contextual factors. This is an invaluable work for anyone studying the dynamics of social movements around the world.
In the past two decades young people, environmentalists, church activists, leftists, and others have mobilized against nuclear energy. Anti-nuclear protest has been especially widespread and vocal in Western Europe and the United States. In this lucid, ri

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• CHAPTER ONE Introduction
• PART I The Rise of the
• CHAPTER TWO Expert Dissent and Legal Intervention in the United States
• CHAPTER THREE Elite Consensus and Citizen
• PART II Energy Crisis
• CHAPTER FOUR Public-Interest Advocacy and Direct Action in the United States
• CHAPTER FIVE Challenging the State in West Germany
• PART III The Decline of the
• CHAPTER SIX Three Mile Island and the Decline of Nuclear Power in the United States
• CHAPTER SEVEN Institutionalization and
• CHAPTER EIGHT Conclusion
• APPENDIX A. Methodology
• APPENDIX B. Tables
• APPENDIX C. Informants and Primary Sources
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index