Economic Breakdown and Collective Action

Caren, Neal; Gaby, Sarah; Herrold, Catherine E.

doi:10.1093/socpro/spw030

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“…Of particular relevance is the suggestion that where unions are absent or intended for control, labour protest can be seen, in a way similar to wildcat strikes, as responding to severe economic hardship (ibid.). Recent scholarship has also pointed to an association between economic breakdown and increased protest, including labour protest and strikes (Caren, Gaby, and Herrold 2017). Notably, such grievance-based theories of labour mobilization run counter to the bargaining models outlined above.…”

Section: Economic Conditionsmentioning

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Opportunity Without Organization: Labor Mobilization in Egypt After the 25th January Revolution*

Barrie¹,

Ketchley²

2018

Mobilization: An International Quarterly

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Prevailing understandings of labor protest and strikes take as their focus stable democratic settings where autonomous trade union structures are an established component of the organizational resources available to workers. We extend the analysis of labor mobilization to a radically different context: Egypt in the year of the January 25th Revolution, when workers mobilized en masse in the absence of union leadership. For this, we use a catalogue of 4,912 protest events reported in Arabic-language newspapers. Our findings point to the importance of cross-sectoral demonstration effects in contexts of political disorganization—local and national mobilization advancing both labor and nonlabor demands inspired subsequent labor protest. This speaks to the value of understanding labor protest and strikes not as delimited domains of action but as parts of a wider universe of contentious politics. In addition, state-level signals of opportunity and shifts in economic conditions are also found to pattern the incidence of labor mobilization.

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Section: Economic Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opportunity Without Organization: Labor Mobilization in Egypt After the 25th January Revolution*

Barrie¹,

Ketchley²

2018

Mobilization: An International Quarterly

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“…To control for this rival explanation, I include a variable for oil production per capita in U.S. 2000 dollars (Ross 2012). Because economic performance is an important predictor of both democratic survival (Bernhard, Nordstrom, and Reenock 2001) and rates of protest (Caren, Gaby, and Herrold 2017), I include a control for GDP growth in annual percent (World Bank 2012).…”

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Mass Mobilization and the Durability of New Democracies

Kadivar

2018

Am Sociol Rev

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The "elitist approach" to democratization contends that "democratic regimes that last have seldom, if ever, been instituted by mass popular actors" (Huntington 1984:212). This article subjects this observation to empirical scrutiny using statistical analyses of new democracies over the past half-century and a case study. Contrary to the elitist approach, I argue that new democracies growing out of mass mobilization are more likely to survive than are new democracies that were born amid quiescence. Survival analysis of 112 young democracies in 80 different countries based on original data shows that the longer the mobilization, the more likely the ensuing democracy is to survive. I use a case study of South Africa to investigate the mechanisms. I argue that sustained unarmed uprisings have generated the longest-lasting new democracies-largely because they are forced to develop an organizational structure, which provides a leadership cadre for the new regime, forges links between the government and society, and strengthens checks on the power of the post-transition government.

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“…A study on this scale provides several opportunities to advance the literature. We offer the first global study of visible environmental protest, whereas prior large- N work has focused mainly on antigovernment protest or ethnic protest (e.g., Caren, Gaby, and Herrold 2017; Olzak 2006). The project offers a quantitative exploration of recent arguments linking world society theory with social movement society theory.…”

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Globally Visible Environmental Protest: A Cross-national Analysis, 1970–2010

Evans

Schofer

Hironaka

2020

Sociological Perspectives

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We examine the global rise of environmental protest events reported in major news outlets from 1970 to 2010, based on a new cross-national dataset. The paper addresses conventional arguments regarding resources and political opportunities, but focuses principally on the international dynamics that affect local protest and its visibility. World society theory as well as scholarship on transnational movements and advocacy networks suggests that international organizations and institutions play an important role in bringing resources, opportunities, and global media attention to local movements. We argue that international forces will be especially important in nondemocratic countries. Cross-national quantitative analyses suggest that nations with strong organizational ties to the international community have more protests that get covered in international media, and that the effects of international forces are stronger in less democratic societies.

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Economic Breakdown and Collective Action

Cited by 38 publications

References 60 publications

Opportunity Without Organization: Labor Mobilization in Egypt After the 25th January Revolution*

Opportunity Without Organization: Labor Mobilization in Egypt After the 25th January Revolution*

Mass Mobilization and the Durability of New Democracies

Globally Visible Environmental Protest: A Cross-national Analysis, 1970–2010

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