Understanding public support for social protest: testing collective action frames, cognitive liberation and political opportunity in the Israeli 2011 summer protest

Cognition and protest in democratic and authoritarian regimes, 1981–2020

“…Other major theories also explicitly emphasize cognition; I examine two of them. In political process theory (PPT) (McAdam et al, 2001(McAdam et al, , 2013Meyer, 2012;Meyer and Minkoff, 2004;Schussman and Soule, 2005;Zaidise et al, 2018), the psychological part is 'cognitive liberation', defined as 'the collective assessment of the prospects for successful insurgency' (McAdam, 1982: 40). In cognitive liberation, perceived injustice and efficacy are critical components of protest emergence (McAdam, 1982(McAdam, : 51, 2013.…”