From the Balconies to the Barricades, and Back? Trajectories of Participation in Contentious Politics

Does Civic Participation Stimulate Political Activity?

“…To date, political activity has typically been operationalized as a simple summation of various activities (Alexander et al., ), a dichotomy of institutional versus noninstitutional political activities (e.g., Schussman & Soule, ; van der Meer & van Ingen, ), or some restricted set of choices (Corrigall‐Brown, ; van Deth, Montero, & Westholm, ), ruling out the opportunity to examine whether different activities are driven by different mechanisms. In the current article, we distinguish between institutionalized, individualized and collective noninstitutionalized activities following van Deth's (, p. 315) conceptual map of political participation.…”

The social psychology of protest

“…More generally, the theme of sustained participation raises another underexplored issue, namely the personal consequences of movement participation. The individual consequences of participation in collective action are a relatively untouched area which scholars have just recently begun to investigate (for instance on empowerment, see Drury and Reicher, 1999, 2000Drury et al, 2005; on empowerment and politicization and on individual trajectories of participation, see Corrigall-Brown, 2012; and for a more general overview making a plea for the investigation of individual consequences of protest, see Louis, 2009). …”

Student Participation and Public Facebook Communication: Exploring the Demand and Supply of Political Information in the Romanian #rezist Demonstrations

“…We sought to control for confounding influences on protest participation. Studies of pathways into collective action have revealed that participation is primed by both formal and informal contacts ranging from civil society organizations to friends or family (Corrigall-Brown, 2012). This holds true for students (Maher & Earl, 2017).…”