The Determinants of Anti-Government Protests in Asia

Choi, Chonghyun; Kim, Dongwook

doi:10.1017/jea.2019.23

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“…Urbanization plays a significant role in facilitating mass mobilization and riots, as highlighted by Vicino and Fahlberg (2017). While studies have primarily focused on Asia (Choi and Kim, 2019), these dynamics can also apply to other regions, particularly in developing countries where rapid urbanization has led to the exclusion and marginalization of millions of people who live in slums, lacking stable employment, and struggling to access regular food (Buhaug and Urdal, 2013;Glaeser, 2020). Furthermore, there is a media bias that tends to over-report food riots occurring in urban areas, overshadowing numerous incidents that take place in rural areas and remote corners of large cities (Hussain et al, 2017).…”

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The Agrarian Conflicts and Food Crises Nexus in Contemporary Latin America

Zimerman

2024

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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This paper explores the violence stemming from food riots in Latin American countries that have been triggered by recurring food crises in the twenty-first century, particularly impacting impoverished rural populations. The marginalized sectors of emerging countries, whose demands for basic rights such as the right to food go unaddressed by the State, may resort to protests that can escalate into confrontations. The recurrent food crises exacerbate the struggle to meet the basic needs of those who are unable to subsist regularly. This research focuses on a region that has received less scholarly attention compared to Africa and Asia, and examines indicators such as land grabbing, climate change, demographic pressures, political polarization, as independent variables to elucidate the association with food riot occurrences. The collected data and statistical analysis confirm the hypotheses, although further studies are required to enhance the performance of certain indicators.

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The Agrarian Conflicts and Food Crises Nexus in Contemporary Latin America

Zimerman

2024

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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“…Anti-government actions are by no mean a new phenomenon (Abrams & Dunn, 2017): just in the past decades, they have occurred all around the globe, with aims ranging from policy change to regime change (Choi & Kim, 2019;Tarrow, 2011). They remain, however, relatively less frequent than collective actions aiming to advance the status of specific minority groups (in recent years for example, actions around race, gender, and sexual identity have been particularly salient) which might explain why they are less well studied.…”

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Mobilising ideas in the COVID-19 pandemic: Anti-lockdown actions and the Identity-Deprivation-Efficacy-Action-Subjective well-being model

Lalot

Marinthe

Kasper

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J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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We tested how well the Identity-Deprivation-Efficacy-Action-Subjective-wellbeing (IDEAS) model predicts citizens’ intentions to engage in collective action opposing their government, and their subjective well-being. Representative samples from Scotland, Wales, and the county of Kent in England were surveyed during the COVID-19 pandemic in October 2020 (N = 1,536). Results largely support our preregistered hypotheses, confirming that the IDEAS model offers a valid explanatory framework for how relative deprivation predicts both collective action opposing one’s government and levels of subjective well-being. In the case of collective action, there were significant effects of collective relative deprivation (cognitive and affective) and collective efficacy on social change beliefs, which in turn positively predicted collective action intentions. The role of national identification was more nuanced, revealing both negative indirect effects via collective efficacy and relative deprivation, and a positive indirect effect via political orientation. Findings also suggest interesting directions for future research on national identification.

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Income Inequality and Political Participation in Asia

Wong¹

2022

Asian Survey

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This paper examines the impact of income inequality on political participation in Asia. Both conventional conflict theory and relative power theory suggest that inequality affects political participation, but they predict opposite directions. In this paper, I argue that the effects of inequality on participation depend on the type of political action: radical or institutional. To substantiate this claim, I analyze four Asian Barometer Survey waves from 2001 to 2014. Using nested models, I find that the effect of income inequality is conditional: it is positively associated with violent activities; has no significant correlation with less radical forms of protest; and is negatively associated with institutional actions, namely voting and persuading others to vote. While the effect does not depend on income level, regime type matters for certain activities. Political capacity, the perception of powerlessness, and trust in government are other potential factors in the relationship.

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The Determinants of Anti-Government Protests in Asia

Cited by 3 publications

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The Agrarian Conflicts and Food Crises Nexus in Contemporary Latin America

The Agrarian Conflicts and Food Crises Nexus in Contemporary Latin America

Mobilising ideas in the COVID-19 pandemic: Anti-lockdown actions and the Identity-Deprivation-Efficacy-Action-Subjective well-being model

Income Inequality and Political Participation in Asia

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