the protest of a third party generally involves three categories of actions: tierce opposition; third party's declaration; and third person's protest such as mentioned in fifth section of civil judgment enforcement act. therefore, there are some differences between third party's opposition to a judgment and third person's protest to enforcement proceedings in regard of conce...

A supporter of a candidate for office may wish to restrict her power or to send her a message by casting a protest vote against her. A sufficiently large protest may convince the candidate to accept the protesters’ demands after winning the election; however, if the protest is too large then it risks causing the candidate to lose to a disliked opponent. I study a model of protest voting in whic...

The literature on political participation asserts that protest has increased over the last four decades, all over the world. This trend is derived from surveys asking questions about participation in various forms of protest, including demonstrations, boycotts, and unofficial strikes. The latter question made sense in the context in which it was formulated, Britain in the early 1970s, and with ...

Motivations for migrating within the European Union have mainly been attributed to economic, career and lifestyle choices. This article suggests that political dissatisfaction is also an important motivator of recent intra-European migration. In our analysis of in-depth interviews with Romanian migrants in Spain and with Spanish migrants in Norway, we found a common emphasis on the political di...

In the literature it is suggested that the number of protest responses can depend on the valuation method. Choice Experiments (CE) are said to generate a lower number of protest responses than Contingent Valuation (CV). In a project about forest biodiversity both CE and CV were used and protest beliefs of all respondents irrespective of their willingness to pay determined. According to our anal...

Communication scholars have articulated the concept of protest paradigm to capture the news media’s tendency to portray social protests as deviant, threatening, or impotent. Developments in the media and social environment have led to more diversified media representations of protests, however. Correspondingly, scholars have started to treat the protest paradigm as a variable. Extending this li...