How International Experiences Shape U.S. Protest Trajectories? Evidence from the 2024 Party Conventions

• In Event: New Research on Social Movements, Electoral Mobilization and Protests

Brief Overview

This paper analyzes protester survey data from the 2024 DNC and RNC to show how early international protest experiences shape later activism, linking global exposure to cosmopolitan, cross-issue engagement in U.S. protest fields.

Authors

• Selin Bengi Gumrukcu, Rutgers University

• Michael Heaney, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Eric S. Heberlig, University of North Carolina at Charlotte