Being denied and granted social welfare and the propensity to protest

Theiss, Maria; Kurowská, Anna

doi:10.1057/s41269-018-0084-2

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“…Surprisingly, our finding reveals that people who feel satisfied with the social security system are more likely to participate in protests compared to those who are dissatisfied. This unfamiliar result is consistent with other studies that speak for higher levels of participation among individuals who benefit from social welfare (McCarthy and Zald 1977;Klandermans 1997;Theiss and Kurowska 2019). Ideally, receiving satisfying social welfare empowers them to take part in political activities in the form of political transition; on the contrary, dissatisfied people are helpless in bringing about political change.…”

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Determinants of the Arab Spring Protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya: What Have We Learned?

Barakat

Fakih

2021

Social Sciences

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This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of protest participation in Arab Spring countries that witnessed major uprisings and in which social unrest was most pronounced. Namely, this paper investigates the latter in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya using a micro-level data survey, the Arab Transformation Survey (2015). The findings of our probit regression analysis reveal that gender, trust in government, corruption concern, and social media usage have influenced the individual’s perception of protest activism. We find evidence that the role of economic factors was inconsistent, whereas political grievances were more clearly related to the motive to participate in the uprisings. We then control for country-specific effects whereby results show that citizens in each country showed different characteristics of participation. The findings of this research would set the ground for governments to better assess the health of their societies and be a model of governance in the Middle East.

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Determinants of the Arab Spring Protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya: What Have We Learned?

Barakat

Fakih

2021

Social Sciences

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“…Recently, a few studies have produced evidence that showcase how integrating the multiplicity of policy experiences refines well-established findings in the literature (Mettler, 2018 Rosenthal, 2021a; Theiss and Kurowska, 2019; Rosenthal, 2019; Bruch et al, 2010). Rosenthal’s analysis of survey data on US citizens confirms, on the one hand, previous findings on the respectively participation-enhancing and participation–depressing effect of visible universal and means-tested social policies (2021a).…”

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Citizens’ experiences of a policy-ridden environment: A methodological contribution to feedback studies based on qualitative secondary analysis

Dupuy¹,

Teuber²,

Ingelgom

2022

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie S

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Les expériences des citoyen.nes dans un environnement saturé de politiques publiques. Une contribution méthodologique aux études sur les policy feedbacks depuis l'analyse secondaire de données qualitatives. Au cours des dix dernières années, les études sur les effets-retourdes politiques publiques sur les citoyen.nes (qu’on désigne par policy feedbacks) ont connu un regain d’intérêt. Analysant ces récents développements, plusieurs appels ont été lancés pour élargir ce courant de recherches au-delà des expériences que les citoyen.nes font d’une politique spécifique pour tenir compte, au contraire, de la multiplicité des expériences de politique publique qu'elles et ils ont au cours de leur vie quotidienne. Sur le plan méthodologique cependant, la reconnaissance de la multiplicité des expériences de politiques publiques des citoyen.nes en Europe de l'Ouest remet en question (i) les dispositifs empiriques de recherche et (ii) les inférences causales qui sont courantes dans cette littérature. Dans cet article, nous expliquons comment nous avons relevé ces deux défis en tirant parti des possibilités offertes par l’analyse secondaire qualitative. En réponse au premier défi, nous discutons notre approche, une analyse qualitative comparative et longitudinale de données secondaires sans sélection a priori des politiques publiques considérées. Nous présentons comment nous opérationnalisons dans ces données les expériences et les perceptions multiples des politiques publiques des citoyen.nes. En réponse au deuxième défi, nous construisons théoriquement un troisième mécanisme de feedback, qui est normatif et collectif. Nous discutons également de la manière dont nous étudions empiriquement les normes collectives liées aux expériences multiples de politique publique à partir de données individuelles.

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Growing Household Credit Load Through the Prism of Social Perception, Credit, and Political Attitudes of Russians

Новиков

Козлов

2021

Review of Business and Economics Studies

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The year 2020 demonstrates another surge of civil non-conventional activism in the world due to the epidemiological situation and related government restrictive measures. in Russia, at the background of the “Corona-crisis” and falling real incomes, retail lending to households continues to proliferate, along with an increase in their overdue debt. The deteriorating economic well-being of Russians raises questions about the possibility of an increase in political protest behaviour of citizens and how much their readiness for it is affected by the deteriorating financial situation due to difficulties in paying off their loan obligations. The authors used the methods of cybermetric analysis and mass survey, examines the perception of the credit problem by Russians, their assessment of its causes and “culprits” (the state, banks and borrowers themselves). The paper also notes some trends of mutual conditionality at the individual level of credit attitudes of Russians, their financial prosperity and readiness to participate in various forms of pro-government and opposition political activity. The authors conclude that the most common conservative model of credit behaviour among Russians contributes to the latent deterioration of the subjective well-being of borrowers that not always leading to a decrease in credit payments. It, in turn, leads to a desire to share responsibility for these difficulties with creditors and the state and, probably, increases the readiness for protest activism.

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Being denied and granted social welfare and the propensity to protest

Cited by 3 publications

References 41 publications

Determinants of the Arab Spring Protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya: What Have We Learned?

Determinants of the Arab Spring Protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya: What Have We Learned?

Citizens’ experiences of a policy-ridden environment: A methodological contribution to feedback studies based on qualitative secondary analysis

Growing Household Credit Load Through the Prism of Social Perception, Credit, and Political Attitudes of Russians

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