Peculiarities of political protest participants` mobilization

Mobilization through Online Social Networks: the political protest of the indignados in Spain

Political Protest in Fragile States

Since the mid-seventies, an extensive body of literature has analyzed political activism in Western democracies, utilizing the methods of survey research, historical comparisons, and events analysis to understand the ways that people participate in the public sphere, the processes that lead them to do so, and the consequences of these acts. By contrast, far less has been established about the c...

Witnessing Political Protest on Civic Engagement∗

How does physically witnessing a protest in a democratic society affect citizens in authoritarian societies? Existing data are unable to answer the question by failures to capture witnesses, to construct meaningful comparison groups and to obtain information on pre-protest political behaviors. Using a quasi-experiment design, we report a first causal estimation on impact of 13 protests in Hong ...

Resource Mobilization Theory: Political Movement in Egypt

This paper discusses the application of the resource mobilization theory (RMT) to clarify the activities of certain key socio-political groups and movements in Egypt up till 2011. It contends that the political movements in the country have utilized information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social networks sites (SNSs) as a tool for mobilizing people and coordinating anti-regime act...

Anger And Positive Emotions In Political Protest *

r e s u M e n En este estudio se analiza el papel de las emociones en la protesta política. En los modelos actuales, la ira es la única emoción que se asocia a esas acciones. Sin embargo, los autores creen que no es la única emoción que moviliza a la ciudadanía, por ello afirman que junto a ella deben existir otras de valencia positiva. En este estudio participaron 316 estudiantes universitario...