About the Book

The Rise, Fall, and Influence of the Tea Party is based on over a decade of intensive data collection about the Tea Party. We use a combination of web data, newspaper coverage, surveys, and qualitative interviews to study the Tea Party’s activities at an unprecedented level of depth.

The book is organized around an introduction, a theoretical chapter, eight empirical chapters, and a conclusion. There is also an appendix outlining the main research designs that we use to create the data that inform our analysis.

You can see a breakdown of each chapter on Cambridge’s main portal for the book. The specific chapter titles are:

Chapter 1 – The Tea Party: An Insurgent Social Movement

Chapter 2 – Toward a Theoretical Account of the Tea Party’s Rise and Fall

Chapter 3 – The Birth of the Insurgency: The 2009 Tea Party Protests and the Groups That Staged Them

Chapter 4 – Tea Party Supporters, Activists, and Mobilizing Structures

Chapter 5 – The Trajectory of the Tea Party Insurgency

Chapter 6 – Threat, Political Integration, and the Disappearance of Local Tea Party Groups

Chapter 7 – Moving Off Message: The Discursive Demobilization of the Tea Party

Chapter 8 – How Tea Party Activism Helped Radicalize the House of Representative

Chapter 9 – From Ridicule to Unbridled Enthusiasm: The Tea Party’s Slow Embrace of Trumpism

Chapter 10 – Conclusion

Appendix – Research Design: A Data Template for Spatiotemporal Collective Action Research