Bøger i Oxford Studies in Culture and serien

In this book, Yuval Feinstein examines the "rally-round-the-flag" phenomenon in public opinion in the United States, which shows a sudden and sharp increase in the public approval ratings of the sitting presidents in response to a war or security crisis. One of the most extensive investigation of the rally phenomenon to date, Feinstein covers the administrations of thirteen US presidents, from Harry Truman to Donald Trump, seeking to understand why some wars and security crises have led the public to rally behind the sitting president, but other wars and security crises did not have a similar impact on the public assessment of the president.

In Base Towns, Claudia Junghyun Kim addresses how local populations respond to the U.S. military bases they host by investigating the contentious politics surrounding twenty U.S. bases across Korea and Japan. Drawing on fieldwork interviews, participant observation, and protest event data from 2000-2015, Kim shows that activists in base towns successfully build broad-based anti-base movements when they take advantage of quotidian disruption, adopt culturally resonant movement frames, and ally with local political elites. In examining activist actions, strategies, and dilemmas, this book sheds light on marginalized actors in domestic and international politics who sometimes manage to complicate the operations of America's military behemoth.