Political Imprisonment and Protest Mobilization: Evidence From the GDR
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چکیده
How does political imprisonment influence anti-regime protest? We argue that facilitates rather than stifles protest. Political is a salient indicator of arbitrary rule creating ‘embodied grievances’. It enables the formation dissident networks within prisons, and serves as legitimating credential for former inmates to lead resistance. These mechanisms imply self-defeating strategy, making it easier opposition overcome their collective action problem. test our argument with subnational data from German Democratic Republic between 1984 1989. To account endogenous latent dissent, we use originally collected archival on local surveillance operations. Exploiting daily variation in timing protests 1989, analyze long-term impact mobilization. Results survival analyses lend support hypothesized relationship. Combined semi-structured interviews probe mechanisms, findings suggest increases likelihood protest
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Conflict Resolution
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0022-0027', '1552-8766']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027221124247