Dynamics of Political Protests
| Autor: | Graig R. Klein, Patrick M. Regan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Collective action Costs Model Politics State (polity) Political science 050602 political science & public administration Set (psychology) media_common Policing 021110 strategic defence & security studies Government Political Violence 05 social sciences Protest Dissent Repression 0506 political science Non-violence Conflict Processes Political economy Political Science and International Relations Disruption Costs Arrow Political violence Concession Costs Law |
| Zdroj: | International Organization International Organization, 72(2), 485-521 |
| ISSN: | 1531-5088 0020-8183 |
| Popis: | The links between protests and state responses have taken on increased visibility in light of the Arab Spring movements. But we still have unanswered questions about the relationship between protest behaviors and responses by the state. We frame this in terms of concession and disruption costs. Costs are typically defined as government behaviors that impede dissidents’ capacity for collective action. We change this causal arrow and hypothesize how dissidents can generate costs that structure the government's response to a protest. By disaggregating costs along dimensions of concession and disruption we extend our understanding of protest behaviors and the conditions under which they are more (or less) effective. Utilizing a new cross-national protest-event data set, we test our theoretical expectations against protests from 1990 to 2014 and find that when protesters generate high concession costs, the state responds in a coercive manner. Conversely, high disruption costs encourage the state to accommodate demands. Our research provides substantial insights and inferences about the dynamics of government response to protest. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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