One of the primary objectives of protests and demonstrations is to bring social, political, or economic issues to the … attention of politicians and the wider population. While protests can have a mobilizing and persuading effect, they may reduce … are more successful. Lastly, we also show that people become more politically interested in response to protests, mainly …

One of the primary objectives of protests and demonstrations is to bring social, political, or economic issues to the … attention of politicians and the wider population. While protests can have a mobilizing and persuading effect, they may reduce … are more successful. Lastly, we also show that people become more politically interested in response to protests, mainly …

Autocratic regimes can use carrots and/or sticks to prevent being overthrown by protests. Carrots, i.e. resource … allocation, reduce the probability of protests, but cannot help to end them. Sticks, i.e. repression, reduce the probability that … protests overthrow the regime, but also decrease its popularity. Using a difference-in-differences approach, I show that …

Citizens political participation to protests is a crucial issue for any political system, whether democratic or … autocratic. Political systems have different ways of dealing with citizens' protests, determining cost and benefit of public … this paper is to analyze causes and consequences of citizens' protests, focusing on how private and public information …

During Egypt's Arab Spring, unprecedented popular mobilization and protests brought down Hosni Mubarak's government and … military, and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Street protests continued to play an important role during this power struggle …. We show that these protests are associated with differential stock market returns for firms connected to the three groups …

We estimate the opportunity cost for Iran due to the Islamic revolution and eight years' war with Iraq (1978 … loss is equivalent to 40% of income per capita, which an Iranian could reach at the absence of revolution and war. …

variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from … 1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption … reflection index. We also show that the main channels where higher corruption may lead to higher internal protests are through …

We study the effect of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and its aftermath on migration intentions of the Egyptian youth. We … measure revolution intensity using the spacial variation in the number of deaths during the revolution from the Statistical … Database of the Egyptian Revolution Wikithawra and combine it with data on migration intentions from the Harmonized Survey of …