Patrick Rafail (Louisiana Tulane University), John D. McCarthy (Pennsylvania State University)

The Rise, Fall, and Influence of the Tea Party Insurgency

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Produktbeschreibung

The Tea Party was one of the most impactful recent conservative social movements. This book provides an unparalleled examination of the Tea Party, carefully tracing its earliest origins, maturity, and eventual decline. The authors highlight the importance of Tea Party activism in understanding the current state of American democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781009423779
• ISBN-10: 1009423770
• Artikelnr.: 68213303

Autorenporträt

Patrick Rafail is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Tulane University. His work focuses on social movements, collective behavior, social control, and computational social science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: A Fragile, Grassroots Insurgency
2. Toward a Theoretical Account of the Tea Party's Rise and Fall
3. The Birth of the Insurgency: The 2009 Tea Party Protests and the Groups that Staged Them
4. Tea Party Supporters, Activists, and Mobilizing Structures
5. The Trajectory of the Tea Party Insurgency: Local Activism and its Rapid Decline
6. Threat, Political Integration, and the Disappearance of Local Tea Party Groups
7. Moving Off Message: The Discursive Demobilization of the Tea Party
8. How Tea Party Activism Polarized the House of Representatives
9. From Ridicule to Unbridled Enthusiasm: The Tea Party's Slow Embrace of Trumpism
10. Conclusion
Appendix: Research Design and Methodology.