Why are some policies protested more than others? New data on protest against eight categories of taxation in twenty rich democracies from 1980 to 2010 reveal that economically and socially concentrated taxes are protested most, whereas taxes that confer entitlement to benefits are protested least. Other features of policy design often thought to affect the salience or visibility of costs are u...

This article explores the link between ritualization of public protest and movement persistence in context contemporary far-right politics. Drawing from interpretive approaches political science, social studies, anthropology, it introduces under-researched analytical category ritual to scholarship on movements. It argues for a strong ritualistic persistence, conceptualized as symbolic continuit...

Social bots can affect online communication among humans. We study this phenomenon by focusing on #YaMeCanse, the most active protest hashtag in the history of Twitter in Mexico. Accounts using the hashtag are classified using the BotOrNot bot detection tool. Our preliminary analysis suggests that bots played a critical role in disrupting online communication about the protest movement.

Despite the rise of social media as a major factor in protests since early 2010s, scholars have documented continued importance urban space and “place-based networks” for movements. However, 2019–2020 Hong Kong Anti-ELAB saw shift from occupying symbolic public to more variegated use spaces city. Combining network analysis Telegram channels georeferencing protest events, this study shows how ne...

How can we measure the resource mobilization (RM) efforts of social movements on Twitter? In this article, create first ever movements’ RM a media platform. To aim, four-conditional lexicon that parse through tweets and identify those concerned with RM. We also simple score be plotted in time series format to track real time. use our tools millions from United States streamed between November 2...

During the first half of 1970s, Swedish and Danish new women’s movements campaigned against their respective countries joining European Economic Community (EEC). In doing so, socialist feminist activists in Denmark Sweden were confronted by questions regarding how to navigate international solidarity between women where draw its limits. This article explores these limits examining campaigns EEC...

The emergence of the Occupy movements along with other social in 2011 elevated idea radically decentralized “leaderless” movement organizations. We argue that looking at such an alternative, horizontalist form organizing presents opportunity to reframe how we understand leadership. This paper illustrates coordination London was accomplished horizontally absence formal organization, leadership, ...