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To understand protest behaviours in politically polarized contexts where (fear of) repression is limited, this project offers a theory that the social fear of being perceived as a hypocrite by others plays a mobilizing role for protest, contingent on individuals’ perceptions of their social networks. I argue that the fear of being perceived as a hypocrite plays a mobilizing role in the US and other polarized political contexts at large, and that fears of political inconsistency are particularly important for studying protest, a form of political action which exemplifies ‘talking the talk, walking the walk’. This project focuses on the US and on the issue of reproductive rights for both empirical importance/relevance and analytical leverage. In addition, I test whether fears of hypocrisy may motivate attitudes towards protest participation in contexts that may be less likely by comparing protest attitudes towards domestic reproductive rights and reproductive rights abroad. |
