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Populism and Protest [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2021
The essay considers populism in the present moment in relation to Black Lives Matter as a popular protest movement. Popular protest movements demand that government change; populism in the present moment seeks to act extra-governmentally, and to this end
Nancy J. Hirschmann
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The strategy of protest against Covid‐19 containment policies in Germany

open access: yesSocial Science Quarterly, 2021
Objectives The article analyzes the epidemiological and political logics of protest against containment policies in Germany. To maximize the mobilization potential, protest organizers organize more protest events when Covid‐19 mortality rates are low ...
Thomas Pluemper   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Different worlds of contention? Protest in Northwestern, Southern and Eastern Europe

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Research, 2020
Despite the voluminous literature on the ‘normalisation of protest’, the protest arena is seen as a bastion of left-wing mobilisation. While citizens on the left readily turn to the streets, citizens on the right only settle for it as a ‘second best ...
Endre Borbath, Theresa Gessler
exaly   +2 more sources

Women’s protest suicide by self-burning in Southern and Central Asia: a political act to decry systemic discrimination, abuse and violence [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Women's Health
In Southern and Central Asia protest suicide by self-burning is most common among women. What women in this region protest via suicidal self-burning are violations of their human rights, including their right to education, paid work, self-determination ...
Silvia Sara Canetto
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Protest attitudes of modern Russian youth [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2021
Studies of protest attitudes among young people have recently acquired great scientific research significance. Youth protest activity is an indicator of public sentiment and reflects the level of socio-political tension in society.
Vasileva Elena, Zerchaninova Tatiana
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Impact of positive and negative emotions on protest for institutional reform: An analysis of #EndSars Twitter posts

open access: yesActa Psychologica, 2023
A protest is a collective action undertaken by a group of people to achieve a common goal. Participation in protests is motivated by appraisals of a social condition. The dual pathway model of collective action has been extended to consider both negative
Anthony Eniayejuni
doaj   +1 more source

Depends on how you count them: the value of general propensity choropleth maps for visualising databases of protest incidents

open access: yesJournal of Maps, 2023
Public protest represents an important sanction on rulers and institutions. Protest is a quotidian phenomenon in South Africa; perhaps the defining element of post-apartheid political life.
Martin Bekker
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Protest activity of youth in Yekaterinburg in 2017-2021: cases and determining factors [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2021
The article examines the political and social protest activity of Yekaterinburg youth in 2017-2021. The protest performances of youth in the framework of all-Russian protest actions and actions, conditioned by the local socio-political agenda, are ...
Vatoropin Alexander   +2 more
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The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests – CORRIGENDUM

open access: yesAmerican Political Science Review, 2022
oes social protest following the police killing of unarmed Black civilians have a widespread “ opinion-mobilizing ” effect against the police? Or, does the racialized nature of these events polarize mass opinion based on standing racial and political ...
Tyler T. Reny, Benjamin J. Newman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

On-screen framing of the Amhara protests in 2016 by journalists in Ethiopia

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
The main purpose of this research was to investigate the ways Amhara Television (ATV) framed the Amhara Protest and the challenges of protest framing. More specifically, the study is geared toward examining the ways the ATV journalists implemented media ...
Biset Ayalew Nigatu
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