Civil Disorders and Popular Protests in Late Colonial New Granada

What’s Old is New Again: Social Media, Protests and the Enduring Role of Civil Society

First o↵, thanks so much for reading the following draft. This project is a significant departure from my usual work and, as such, I’m a bit unsure as to the best way to present the material. Right now, I’m undecided as to whether this project is even worth pursuing. While all comments are of course welcome, I’d love to get feedback on a couple of issues, in particular, to help me decide whethe...

Variolation, Vaccination and Popular Resistance in Early Colonial South India

The campaigns to prevent smallpox in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are commonly understood as the first attempts of large-scale state-sponsored medical intervention in society as such. 1 Before the discovery of the cowpox vaccine inoculation with variolous matterÐknown as variolationÐwas the most widespread preventive against the disease. This practice was well established in parts of...

Epidemics and public health in late colonial Somaliland.

Protests Against Fraudulent Elections in Belarus as Emancipation of the Parallel Civil Society

In the authoritarian regimes dissident social activists are not recognized as agents who are capable of participating in decisionand law-making processes. In addition to the factual deprivation of political rights, representatives of the dissident social movements experience cultural deprivation of esteem from the entire society, since the majority of people in authoritarian regimes as a rule d...

Protests and Reputation Warwick Economic Research Papers Protests and Reputation *

Protests take place for a variety of reasons. In this paper we focus on protests that have a well defined objective, that is in conflict with the objectives of the government. Hence the success or failure of a protest movement depends crucially on how the government responds. We assume that government types are private information so that governments have an interest in building a reputation to...