Empirical Research Of The Relation Between American Anti-war Movements And Voting Behavior

The social movement is a different dimension of political will expression. The members of society could impact on decision making and the activities of government by social movements. The political wills are not easy to express in reality in the United States, although it is a democratic country. Therefore the political will expression by the form of social movements always occurs. However, social movement itself is often lack of real-time effects, the impacts on political activities should be reflected by voting behaviors during the election period. The results of voting are the expression of political wills including social movements.2013is the10th anniversary of the Iraq War. American social communities consider it as an important political issue and reflect it seriously from different aspects. If we look backward to the whole of the Iraq War, we can obviously find out that the Anti-war social movements have played a definitely important role in American politics. The Democratic Party won the2008U.S. presidential election campaign. There are some kind of relations between the Anti-war movements and the result of election. This paper focuses on exploring the relation between Anti-war movements and voting behavior, which based on the feedback model of the political system and data of American National Election Studies2008Time Series Study.The basic structure of this paper is as follows. The development of social movement theory will be summarized first. Then the history of American social movements, especially the Anti-War movements will be researched. Finally, the empirical study will be carried out on the relations between American Anti-war movements and voting behavior.