Browsing by Subject "protest"

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    The Dynamics of the Demobilization of the Protest Campaign in Assam
    (2016-01-20) Demirel-Pegg, Tijen; Department of Political Science, School of Liberal Arts
    This study highlights the role that critical events play in the demobilization of protest campaigns. Social movement scholars suggest that protest campaigns demobilize as a consequence of polarization within the campaign or the cooptation of the campaign leaders. I offer critical events as an alternative causal mechanism and argue that protest campaigns in ethnically divided societies are particularly combustible as they have the potential to trigger unintended or unorchestrated communal violence. When such violence occurs, elite strategies change, mass support declines and the campaign demobilizes. An empirical investigation of the dynamics of the demobilization phase of the anti-foreigner protest campaign in Assam, India between 1979 and 1985 confirms this argument. A single group analysis is conducted to compare the dynamics of the campaign before and after the communal violence by using time series event data collected from The Indian Express, a national newspaper. The study has wider implications for the literature on collective action as it illuminates the dynamic and complex nature of protest campaigns.
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    Introducing the Turkey Protest, Repression, and Pro-Government Rally Dataset (TPRPGRD)
    (Taylor & Francis, 2022-08-28) Kahvecioğlu, Anıl; Demirel-Pegg, Tijen; Aytürk, İ̇lker; Political Science, School of Liberal Arts
    The repression-protest nexus in authoritarian regimes has attracted scholarly attention of contention scholars for a long time. However, studies have generally overlooked pro-government actors’ role in contentious dynamics. This article introduces an original event dataset on protests, repression, and pro-government rallies in Turkey under the rule of the Justice and Development Party during a period in which authoritarianism has increased in intensity. Using protest event analysis, this dataset includes actions of governments, pro-government actors, and dissidents hand-coded from two newspapers between 1 January 2013, and 31 December 2016. The dataset enables researchers to study pro-government rallies (PGRs), anti-government protests, and state actions during a heightened period of contention in Turkey.
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    Of a Time and Place
    (2021-05) Cecil, Justin; Farrow, Vance; Robinson, Cory; Setser, Meredith
    The silhouettes incorporated into my work are used for obscurity. They often feature the mundane, ordinary people whose stories could only be imagined. Sometimes they focus on recognizable figures but presenting them in shadow forces the viewer to think about them more carefully. These silhouettes also represent the current sociopolitical climate of the United States. Events and atrocities highlighted one day will be forgotten the next. Simple ideas or phrases collected from the daily news often spark ideas for new work. Creating work about these events allows me to spend more time with them and in a way makes them more tangible. This allows me to think more carefully about what is happening around me. My work is also a type of preservation of events that will outlive their news cycle and ultimately outlive me.
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    Playing Offense: How Athletes are Impacting a Changing Administrative State
    (2022) Thomas, M. Blair; Levine Daniel, Jamie
    The start of the 2020s presents a broken American administrative system plagued by state ineptitude in a time of turmoil and government distrust. In their protests, marginalized citizens have seen their voices amplified by integral parts of their communities for whom they have cheered: Athletes. This Perspective draws attention to the idea of super citizens and their ability to influence policy. We argue that Black athlete activism that centers their social reality and legitimizes Black Lives Matter for broader populations is one example of a punctuated equilibrium that work to achieve administrative state change.