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What Drives People to Protest in an Authoritarian Country? Resources and Rewards vs Risks of Protests in Urban and Rural China
文献类型：期刊
通讯作者：Han, DL (reprint author), Renmin Univ China, Sch Int Studies, Dept Polit Sci, 59 Zhongguancun St, Beijing 100872, Peoples R China.
期刊名称：POLITICAL STUDIES
年：2019
卷：67
期：1
页码：224-248
ISSN：0032-3217
关键词：protest; authoritarianism; resource mobilization; China
摘要：What drives people to protest in an authoritarian country? Drawing from a rich set of individual-level data from the China General Social Survey 2010, we address the question of protest participation by focusing on the factors of resources, and rewards vs risks, that might be unique to protestors in an authoritarian state. We find strong evidence for education, typically conceived as a key enabling resource in protests, to be negatively associated with likelihood of participation. There are, how ...More
What drives people to protest in an authoritarian country? Drawing from a rich set of individual-level data from the China General Social Survey 2010, we address the question of protest participation by focusing on the factors of resources, and rewards vs risks, that might be unique to protestors in an authoritarian state. We find strong evidence for education, typically conceived as a key enabling resource in protests, to be negatively associated with likelihood of participation. There are, however, significant differences between political behavior in urban and rural samples. We find some, though rather weak, evidence to suggest that as urban residents become wealthier over time, they will increasingly turn to protests as a form of political participation, demanding greater accountability of government and corporate actions. ...Hide

DOI：10.1177/0032321718763558
百度学术：What Drives People to Protest in an Authoritarian Country? Resources and Rewards vs Risks of Protests in Urban and Rural China
语言：外文
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基金：School of International Studies, Renmin University of China
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