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This paper exploits the idiosyncratic line of contact separating Allied and Soviet troops within East Germany at the end of WWII to study political resistance in a non-democracy. When Nazi Germany surrendered, 40% of what would become the authoritarian German Democratic Republic was initially...
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Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria—a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
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Western Europe has recently experienced increasing protest mobilisation by right-wing populist movements. Although … these movements are receiving increasing scholarly attention, systematic data on protest activities is limited. In this … research note, original data is used to describe the protest activity of Germany’s Pegida movement across space and time and to …
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This paper exploits the idiosyncratic line of contact separating Allied and Soviet troops within East Germany at the end of WWII to study political resistance in a non-democracy. When Nazi Germany surrendered, 40% of what would become the authoritarian German Democratic Republic was initially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462655
collected in the summer of 2020 was expanded to capture details about protest attendance, political views, and support for … representative part of the population and that the decision to protest is deliberate in the sense that it is responsive to incentives … and issue salience. We also provide novel evidence of movement overlap – attending a Black Lives Matter protest is …
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competition. Second, they emphasise electoral and protest politics, examining how ideological and affective polarisation shape …
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increased protest propensity by 9 percentage points. Our results suggest that social media can be persuasive and inspire action …
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that the violent protest environment had a significant and negative effect on life satisfaction in Iran. To determine the …' locations. The protest environment reduced the probability of life satisfaction by 3.7 percentage points. Moreover, we find …
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use two original survey experiments to show that non-violent protest by ethnic minorities is perceived as more violent and … requiring more policing than identical protest by majorities. This report reproduces the paper computationally and conducts …
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Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by studying the Tea Party movement in the United States, which rose to prominence through coordinated rallies across the country on Tax Day, April 15, 2009. We...
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