Olena Nikolayenko
Biographic Data
| ID | 236904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olena Nikolayenko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olena |
| FAMILY NAME | Nikolayenko |
| SIGNATURE | NIKOLAYENKO O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6753-8329 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
“Trade Unionism Is Not Extremism!” Labor and the Authoritarian Government in Belarus
Emotional Contagion and Labor Mobilization in an Autocracy
Labor unrest has become a salient feature of contentious politics around the globe. Yet, scholars disagree over the determinants of labor’s rise against the ruling elite in non-democracies. This article argues that emotional contagion explains a short-term spike in labor mobilization. Drawing on empirical evidence from Belarus, one of the most repressive political regimes in contemporary Europe, the study provides support for the argument. Utiliz…
Labor’s repertoire of contention in an autocracy: The case of the 2020 labor mobilization in Belarus
Gender Differences in Protest Participation: Findings from the 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine
Ukrainian men and women en masse participated in the 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity. Drawing on these cases of mass mobilization, the study examines gender differences in protest participation in a polity with fragile democratic institutions. Based on data from nationally representative surveys, the analysis demonstrates differences in the effects of some socioeconomic and attitudinal characteristics on protest beh…
Gender and repression in an autocracy: Findings from Belarus
A growing body of research recognizes the impact of gender on social movement activity. Yet, far less attention has focused on the deployment of repressive methods in a gendered manner. The study contributes to comparative politics literature by proposing a typology of repression. At the start of mass mobilization, state authorities tend to invoke patriarchal norms to ridicule and stigmatize activists. Next, the coercive apparatus targets protest…
Anti-Corruption Protests and University Students: Evidence from Russian Cities
There are conflicting theoretical expectations regarding students' protest behaviour in contemporary autocracies. On the one hand, in line with a resource model of political participation, university students are more likely to protest than their peers without higher education. On the other hand, university students in autocracies might refrain from high-risk activism in exchange for their own financial well-being and career advancement. To addre…
Anti-Corruption Mobilisation in Siberia: The Role of Universities
Universities have long been seen as hotbeds of student activism. Yet institutions of higher education differ in their capacity to serve as mobilising structures. This study argues that history of activism, quality of education and local political climate influence a university’s potential to foster student protest engagement. Using a case study approach, the essay traces how a configuration of structural and cultural factors at three universities…
I am tired of being afraid: Emotions and protest participation in Belarus
Belarus witnessed a staggering level of mass mobilization in the aftermath of the 2020 fraudulent election and disproportionate use of police force against peaceful protesters. Using the case of anti-government protests in Belarus, this article argues that a confluence of moral and reflex emotions explains an incredibly high level of protest participation in a hard autocracy. Specifically, indignation over the magnitude of electoral malpractices …
Protest Participation and Parenthood: Evidence from Ukraine
Parenthood is an important milestone in a person’s life. Scholars have long investigated the effects of parenthood on participation in the labor market (Kil, Neels, Wood, & de Valk, 2018; Schober, 2013), income inequality (Angelov, Johansson, & Lindahl, 2016; Cooke, 2014), leisure time (Claxton & Perry-Jenkins, 2008; Kamp Dush, Yavorsky, & Schoppe-Sullivan, 2018), and life satisfaction (Pollmann-Schult, 2014; Umberson, Pudrovska, & Reczek, 2010).…
Mapping Support for a Revolution: Evidence from Ukraine
Using a unique and previously untapped dataset of telegrams sent to student hunger strikers in Soviet Ukraine, this article examines spatial dispersion of civil resistance in a repressive political regime. The study argues that national identity, compared to socioeconomic grievances, explains better the level of opposition in a multiethnic, authoritarian state. The analysis demonstrates that support for the student hunger strike, also known as th…
The significance of human dignity for social movements: Mass mobilisation in Ukraine
Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with participants in the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, this article argues that the notion of human dignity is critical to mass mobilisation at different phases of anti-government protests. At the start of mass protests, the affirmation of human dignity can serve as a powerful motivation for protest participation. With the growing number of protesters, the notion of human dignity provides a key criteri…
Invisible Revolutionaries: Women' s Participation in the Revolution of Dignity
The article develops a typology of revolutions based upon women's roles over the course of revolutionary struggle. In addition to the patriarchal and the emancipatory models, the study proposes a hybrid model of women's participation in a revolution, characterized by the diversity and fluidity of women's roles. According to the hybrid model, women’s involvement in a revolution can follow three different strategies: (1) acquiescence to a tradition…
Framing and counter-framing a Peace March in Russia: The use of Twitter during a hybrid war
Framing is vital to the capacity of social movements to enlist popular support and sustain contentious collective action. Using the case of a Peace March held in Moscow on 21 September 2014, the article examines how antiwar activists and their opponents framed a protest against Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. The study argues that different interpretations of patriotism underpinned divergent evaluations of the conflict and the construction of o…
Why Women Protest: Insights from Ukraine's EuroMaidan
This article examines why Ukrainian women participated in the 2013–14 anti-government protests, widely known as the EuroMaidan. Based upon in-depth interviews with female protesters, the study uncovers a wide range of motivations for women's engagement in the revolution, including dissatisfaction with the government, solidarity with protesters, motherhood, civic duty, and professional service. Political discontent was the most cited reason for pr…
Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe
At the turn of the twenty-first century, a tide of nonviolent youth movements swept across Eastern Europe. Young people demanded political change in repressive political regimes that emerged since the collapse of communism. The Serbian social movement Otpor (Resistance) played a vital role in bringing down Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. Inspired by Otpor's example, similar challenger organizations were formed in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, and Ukr…
Matthias Schwartz and Heike Winkel, Eastern European youth cultures in a global context
Matthias Schwartz and Heike Winkel, Eastern European youth cultures in a global context." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 58(4), pp. 443–444
Youth Movements and Elections in Belarus
This article offers a contribution to the comparative democratisation literature by analysing the use of non-violent methods of resistance in a repressive political regime. It focuses on the role of youth movements in elections in Belarus. Elections present an opportunity for the engagement of youth in politics. The study examines how the youth movements Malady Front, Zubr and Belarusian Patriotic Youth Union sought to mobilise young people durin…
Marching Against the Dictator: Chernobyl Path in Belarus
The protest campaign Chernobyl Path is held annually in Belarus to commemorate victims of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, raise public awareness of environmental issues, and call for democratization in the post-communist state. The size of this protest event, however, has declined since the mid-1990s. This Profile argues that protest tactics and state countermoves account for a low level of citizen participation in the pro…
Trust in Government and Goal Pursuit in a Transition Society
The development of life goals and aspirations is vital to positive youth development, and may be especially important in societies undergoing dramatic political and socioeconomic changes. Scholars have identified a wide range of factors associated with goal-directed behavior during youth, but the linkage between trust in government and goal pursuit has received scant attention in this literature. Using data from a nationally representative survey…
Origins of the movement’s strategy: The case of the Serbian youth movement Otpor
Using the case of the Serbian social movement Otpor (Resistance), this article argues that learning is critical to the development of an effective movement strategy. This article specifies three learning mechanisms: (1) participation in previous protest campaigns, (2) the cross-national diffusion of ideas, and (3) within-movement deliberation practices. The empirical analysis is based upon semi-structured interviews with former movement participa…
Citizens in the Making in Post-Soviet States
The political outlook of young people in the countries of the former Soviet Union is crucial to their countries’ future political development. This is particularly relevant now as the first generation without firsthand experience of communism at first hand is approaching adulthood. Based on extensive original research and including new survey research amongst young people, this book examines young people’s political outlook in countries of the fo…
Adolescents' Hopes for Personal, Local, and Global Future: Insights from Ukraine
This study explores adolescents' hopes for personal, local, and global future in postcommunist Ukraine. The research is based on a survey of 200 sixth-graders in the cities of Donetsk and Lviv in fall 2005. The analysis identifies six domains related to personal aspirations of adolescents: education, career, self-actualization, personal relationships, material possessions, and physical well-being. The findings also indicate that local concerns of…
Support for Democracy in Central Asia
Over the past two decades, scholars have devoted considerable attention to the analysis of mass attitudes toward democracy worldwide (Ansu-Kyeremeh, 1999; Canache, Mondak, & Seligson, 2001; Dalton, 2004; Dobson & Grant, 1992; Norris, 1999; Rose & Shin, 2001; Shin & Wells, 2005). Empirical evidence consistently shows that the majority of citizens favor democracy as an ideal form of government. Meanwhile, social scientists find that individuals wit…
Life Cycle, Generational and Period Effects on Protest Potential in Yeltsin's Russia
Regime change in Eastern Europe affords an excellent opportunity for investigating linkages between age and politics in times of social turmoil. Using data from three waves of the World Values Survey, this paper explores life cycle, generational and period effects on protest potential in Yeltsin's Russia. The study finds that an individual's position in the life cycle is the strongest predictor of protest potential in the post-communist state. Fu…
Contextual effects on historical memory: Soviet nostalgia among post-Soviet adolescents
Using an original survey of adolescents in post-communist Russia and Ukraine, this study analyzes attitudes toward the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The results demonstrate how contextual factors – the republic's position within the former Soviet Union and prior history of colonization – affect the level of nostalgia among the young generation. Based upon semi-structured interviews with adolescents, the study identifies sources of positive and…
I am tired of being afraid: Emotions and protest participation in Belarus
Belarus witnessed a staggering level of mass mobilization in the aftermath of the 2020 fraudulent election and disproportionate use of police force against peaceful protesters. Using the case of anti-government protests in Belarus, this article argues that a confluence of moral and reflex emotions explains an incredibly high level of protest participation in a hard autocracy. Specifically, indignation over the magnitude of electoral malpractices …
Why Women Protest: Insights from Ukraine's EuroMaidan
This article examines why Ukrainian women participated in the 2013–14 anti-government protests, widely known as the EuroMaidan. Based upon in-depth interviews with female protesters, the study uncovers a wide range of motivations for women's engagement in the revolution, including dissatisfaction with the government, solidarity with protesters, motherhood, civic duty, and professional service. Political discontent was the most cited reason for pr…
Origins of the movement’s strategy: The case of the Serbian youth movement Otpor
Using the case of the Serbian social movement Otpor (Resistance), this article argues that learning is critical to the development of an effective movement strategy. This article specifies three learning mechanisms: (1) participation in previous protest campaigns, (2) the cross-national diffusion of ideas, and (3) within-movement deliberation practices. The empirical analysis is based upon semi-structured interviews with former movement participa…
Contextual effects on historical memory: Soviet nostalgia among post-Soviet adolescents
Using an original survey of adolescents in post-communist Russia and Ukraine, this study analyzes attitudes toward the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The results demonstrate how contextual factors – the republic's position within the former Soviet Union and prior history of colonization – affect the level of nostalgia among the young generation. Based upon semi-structured interviews with adolescents, the study identifies sources of positive and…
Youth Movements and Elections in Belarus
This article offers a contribution to the comparative democratisation literature by analysing the use of non-violent methods of resistance in a repressive political regime. It focuses on the role of youth movements in elections in Belarus. Elections present an opportunity for the engagement of youth in politics. The study examines how the youth movements Malady Front, Zubr and Belarusian Patriotic Youth Union sought to mobilise young people durin…
Life Cycle, Generational and Period Effects on Protest Potential in Yeltsin's Russia
Regime change in Eastern Europe affords an excellent opportunity for investigating linkages between age and politics in times of social turmoil. Using data from three waves of the World Values Survey, this paper explores life cycle, generational and period effects on protest potential in Yeltsin's Russia. The study finds that an individual's position in the life cycle is the strongest predictor of protest potential in the post-communist state. Fu…
Anti-Corruption Protests and University Students: Evidence from Russian Cities
There are conflicting theoretical expectations regarding students' protest behaviour in contemporary autocracies. On the one hand, in line with a resource model of political participation, university students are more likely to protest than their peers without higher education. On the other hand, university students in autocracies might refrain from high-risk activism in exchange for their own financial well-being and career advancement. To addre…
Invisible Revolutionaries: Women' s Participation in the Revolution of Dignity
The article develops a typology of revolutions based upon women's roles over the course of revolutionary struggle. In addition to the patriarchal and the emancipatory models, the study proposes a hybrid model of women's participation in a revolution, characterized by the diversity and fluidity of women's roles. According to the hybrid model, women’s involvement in a revolution can follow three different strategies: (1) acquiescence to a tradition…
Framing and counter-framing a Peace March in Russia: The use of Twitter during a hybrid war
Framing is vital to the capacity of social movements to enlist popular support and sustain contentious collective action. Using the case of a Peace March held in Moscow on 21 September 2014, the article examines how antiwar activists and their opponents framed a protest against Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. The study argues that different interpretations of patriotism underpinned divergent evaluations of the conflict and the construction of o…
Press freedom during the 1994 and 1999 presidential elections in Ukraine: A reverse wave
Gender and repression in an autocracy: Findings from Belarus
A growing body of research recognizes the impact of gender on social movement activity. Yet, far less attention has focused on the deployment of repressive methods in a gendered manner. The study contributes to comparative politics literature by proposing a typology of repression. At the start of mass mobilization, state authorities tend to invoke patriarchal norms to ridicule and stigmatize activists. Next, the coercive apparatus targets protest…
The significance of human dignity for social movements: Mass mobilisation in Ukraine
Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with participants in the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, this article argues that the notion of human dignity is critical to mass mobilisation at different phases of anti-government protests. At the start of mass protests, the affirmation of human dignity can serve as a powerful motivation for protest participation. With the growing number of protesters, the notion of human dignity provides a key criteri…
Support for Democracy in Central Asia
Over the past two decades, scholars have devoted considerable attention to the analysis of mass attitudes toward democracy worldwide (Ansu-Kyeremeh, 1999; Canache, Mondak, & Seligson, 2001; Dalton, 2004; Dobson & Grant, 1992; Norris, 1999; Rose & Shin, 2001; Shin & Wells, 2005). Empirical evidence consistently shows that the majority of citizens favor democracy as an ideal form of government. Meanwhile, social scientists find that individuals wit…
Mapping Support for a Revolution: Evidence from Ukraine
Using a unique and previously untapped dataset of telegrams sent to student hunger strikers in Soviet Ukraine, this article examines spatial dispersion of civil resistance in a repressive political regime. The study argues that national identity, compared to socioeconomic grievances, explains better the level of opposition in a multiethnic, authoritarian state. The analysis demonstrates that support for the student hunger strike, also known as th…
Marching Against the Dictator: Chernobyl Path in Belarus
The protest campaign Chernobyl Path is held annually in Belarus to commemorate victims of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, raise public awareness of environmental issues, and call for democratization in the post-communist state. The size of this protest event, however, has declined since the mid-1990s. This Profile argues that protest tactics and state countermoves account for a low level of citizen participation in the pro…
Trust in Government and Goal Pursuit in a Transition Society
The development of life goals and aspirations is vital to positive youth development, and may be especially important in societies undergoing dramatic political and socioeconomic changes. Scholars have identified a wide range of factors associated with goal-directed behavior during youth, but the linkage between trust in government and goal pursuit has received scant attention in this literature. Using data from a nationally representative survey…
Press freedom during the 1994 and 1999 presidential elections in Ukraine: A reverse wave
Web Cartoons in a Closed Society: Animal Farm as an Allegory of Post-Communist Belarus
Political humor directed at President Alyaksandr Lukashenka is beyond the official boundaries of the permissible in Belarus, a former Soviet Republic tucked away on the eastern border of the European Union and oft labeled “Europe's last dictatorship.” In August 2005, KGB officers raided the Minsk office of the civic group Third Way, confiscated the computer equipment, and threatened criminal charges for posting animated cartoons on the group's we…
Life Cycle, Generational and Period Effects on Protest Potential in Yeltsin's Russia
Regime change in Eastern Europe affords an excellent opportunity for investigating linkages between age and politics in times of social turmoil. Using data from three waves of the World Values Survey, this paper explores life cycle, generational and period effects on protest potential in Yeltsin's Russia. The study finds that an individual's position in the life cycle is the strongest predictor of protest potential in the post-communist state. Fu…
Contextual effects on historical memory: Soviet nostalgia among post-Soviet adolescents
Using an original survey of adolescents in post-communist Russia and Ukraine, this study analyzes attitudes toward the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The results demonstrate how contextual factors – the republic's position within the former Soviet Union and prior history of colonization – affect the level of nostalgia among the young generation. Based upon semi-structured interviews with adolescents, the study identifies sources of positive and…
Support for Democracy in Central Asia
Over the past two decades, scholars have devoted considerable attention to the analysis of mass attitudes toward democracy worldwide (Ansu-Kyeremeh, 1999; Canache, Mondak, & Seligson, 2001; Dalton, 2004; Dobson & Grant, 1992; Norris, 1999; Rose & Shin, 2001; Shin & Wells, 2005). Empirical evidence consistently shows that the majority of citizens favor democracy as an ideal form of government. Meanwhile, social scientists find that individuals wit…
Citizens in the Making in Post-Soviet States
The political outlook of young people in the countries of the former Soviet Union is crucial to their countries’ future political development. This is particularly relevant now as the first generation without firsthand experience of communism at first hand is approaching adulthood. Based on extensive original research and including new survey research amongst young people, this book examines young people’s political outlook in countries of the fo…
Adolescents' Hopes for Personal, Local, and Global Future: Insights from Ukraine
This study explores adolescents' hopes for personal, local, and global future in postcommunist Ukraine. The research is based on a survey of 200 sixth-graders in the cities of Donetsk and Lviv in fall 2005. The analysis identifies six domains related to personal aspirations of adolescents: education, career, self-actualization, personal relationships, material possessions, and physical well-being. The findings also indicate that local concerns of…
Origins of the movement’s strategy: The case of the Serbian youth movement Otpor
Using the case of the Serbian social movement Otpor (Resistance), this article argues that learning is critical to the development of an effective movement strategy. This article specifies three learning mechanisms: (1) participation in previous protest campaigns, (2) the cross-national diffusion of ideas, and (3) within-movement deliberation practices. The empirical analysis is based upon semi-structured interviews with former movement participa…
Trust in Government and Goal Pursuit in a Transition Society
The development of life goals and aspirations is vital to positive youth development, and may be especially important in societies undergoing dramatic political and socioeconomic changes. Scholars have identified a wide range of factors associated with goal-directed behavior during youth, but the linkage between trust in government and goal pursuit has received scant attention in this literature. Using data from a nationally representative survey…
Youth Movements and Elections in Belarus
This article offers a contribution to the comparative democratisation literature by analysing the use of non-violent methods of resistance in a repressive political regime. It focuses on the role of youth movements in elections in Belarus. Elections present an opportunity for the engagement of youth in politics. The study examines how the youth movements Malady Front, Zubr and Belarusian Patriotic Youth Union sought to mobilise young people durin…
Marching Against the Dictator: Chernobyl Path in Belarus
The protest campaign Chernobyl Path is held annually in Belarus to commemorate victims of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, raise public awareness of environmental issues, and call for democratization in the post-communist state. The size of this protest event, however, has declined since the mid-1990s. This Profile argues that protest tactics and state countermoves account for a low level of citizen participation in the pro…
Matthias Schwartz and Heike Winkel, Eastern European youth cultures in a global context
Matthias Schwartz and Heike Winkel, Eastern European youth cultures in a global context." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 58(4), pp. 443–444
Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe
At the turn of the twenty-first century, a tide of nonviolent youth movements swept across Eastern Europe. Young people demanded political change in repressive political regimes that emerged since the collapse of communism. The Serbian social movement Otpor (Resistance) played a vital role in bringing down Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. Inspired by Otpor's example, similar challenger organizations were formed in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, and Ukr…
Why Women Protest: Insights from Ukraine's EuroMaidan
This article examines why Ukrainian women participated in the 2013–14 anti-government protests, widely known as the EuroMaidan. Based upon in-depth interviews with female protesters, the study uncovers a wide range of motivations for women's engagement in the revolution, including dissatisfaction with the government, solidarity with protesters, motherhood, civic duty, and professional service. Political discontent was the most cited reason for pr…
Framing and counter-framing a Peace March in Russia: The use of Twitter during a hybrid war
Framing is vital to the capacity of social movements to enlist popular support and sustain contentious collective action. Using the case of a Peace March held in Moscow on 21 September 2014, the article examines how antiwar activists and their opponents framed a protest against Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. The study argues that different interpretations of patriotism underpinned divergent evaluations of the conflict and the construction of o…
Protest Participation and Parenthood: Evidence from Ukraine
Parenthood is an important milestone in a person’s life. Scholars have long investigated the effects of parenthood on participation in the labor market (Kil, Neels, Wood, & de Valk, 2018; Schober, 2013), income inequality (Angelov, Johansson, & Lindahl, 2016; Cooke, 2014), leisure time (Claxton & Perry-Jenkins, 2008; Kamp Dush, Yavorsky, & Schoppe-Sullivan, 2018), and life satisfaction (Pollmann-Schult, 2014; Umberson, Pudrovska, & Reczek, 2010).…
Mapping Support for a Revolution: Evidence from Ukraine
Using a unique and previously untapped dataset of telegrams sent to student hunger strikers in Soviet Ukraine, this article examines spatial dispersion of civil resistance in a repressive political regime. The study argues that national identity, compared to socioeconomic grievances, explains better the level of opposition in a multiethnic, authoritarian state. The analysis demonstrates that support for the student hunger strike, also known as th…
The significance of human dignity for social movements: Mass mobilisation in Ukraine
Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with participants in the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, this article argues that the notion of human dignity is critical to mass mobilisation at different phases of anti-government protests. At the start of mass protests, the affirmation of human dignity can serve as a powerful motivation for protest participation. With the growing number of protesters, the notion of human dignity provides a key criteri…
Invisible Revolutionaries: Women' s Participation in the Revolution of Dignity
The article develops a typology of revolutions based upon women's roles over the course of revolutionary struggle. In addition to the patriarchal and the emancipatory models, the study proposes a hybrid model of women's participation in a revolution, characterized by the diversity and fluidity of women's roles. According to the hybrid model, women’s involvement in a revolution can follow three different strategies: (1) acquiescence to a tradition…
Anti-Corruption Mobilisation in Siberia: The Role of Universities
Universities have long been seen as hotbeds of student activism. Yet institutions of higher education differ in their capacity to serve as mobilising structures. This study argues that history of activism, quality of education and local political climate influence a university’s potential to foster student protest engagement. Using a case study approach, the essay traces how a configuration of structural and cultural factors at three universities…
I am tired of being afraid: Emotions and protest participation in Belarus
Belarus witnessed a staggering level of mass mobilization in the aftermath of the 2020 fraudulent election and disproportionate use of police force against peaceful protesters. Using the case of anti-government protests in Belarus, this article argues that a confluence of moral and reflex emotions explains an incredibly high level of protest participation in a hard autocracy. Specifically, indignation over the magnitude of electoral malpractices …
Gender and repression in an autocracy: Findings from Belarus
A growing body of research recognizes the impact of gender on social movement activity. Yet, far less attention has focused on the deployment of repressive methods in a gendered manner. The study contributes to comparative politics literature by proposing a typology of repression. At the start of mass mobilization, state authorities tend to invoke patriarchal norms to ridicule and stigmatize activists. Next, the coercive apparatus targets protest…
Anti-Corruption Protests and University Students: Evidence from Russian Cities
There are conflicting theoretical expectations regarding students' protest behaviour in contemporary autocracies. On the one hand, in line with a resource model of political participation, university students are more likely to protest than their peers without higher education. On the other hand, university students in autocracies might refrain from high-risk activism in exchange for their own financial well-being and career advancement. To addre…
Gender Differences in Protest Participation: Findings from the 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine
Ukrainian men and women en masse participated in the 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity. Drawing on these cases of mass mobilization, the study examines gender differences in protest participation in a polity with fragile democratic institutions. Based on data from nationally representative surveys, the analysis demonstrates differences in the effects of some socioeconomic and attitudinal characteristics on protest beh…
Emotional Contagion and Labor Mobilization in an Autocracy
Labor unrest has become a salient feature of contentious politics around the globe. Yet, scholars disagree over the determinants of labor’s rise against the ruling elite in non-democracies. This article argues that emotional contagion explains a short-term spike in labor mobilization. Drawing on empirical evidence from Belarus, one of the most repressive political regimes in contemporary Europe, the study provides support for the argument. Utiliz…
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