How Protesters and the State Learn From One Another

Spiraling Repertoires of Contention and Repression in Ukraine, 1990-2014

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ID3759540
AutoresOlga Zelinska (0000-0003-0148-1507, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume64
Fascículo9
Páginas1271-1298
Data de publicação2020-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764220941223
OpenAlexW3044008992
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas56

This article employs a contentious politics framework to examine the mobilization-repression nexus as it occurred in Ukraine from the 1990 Revolution on Granite, through the 2000-2001 Ukraine without Kuchma campaign and the 2004 Orange Revolution, to the 2013-2014 Euromaidan movement. Comparative analysis of these four cases suggests that developments in both the contentious and repressive repertoires resembled spirals: each campaign became more complex and of longer duration than the last, and each was driven by the repeated protester-government interactions and by the political, economic, and technological environment that changed over time. In the transit from autocracy to democracy, Ukrainian activists adopted and "normalized" political protest much more quickly than did the authorities. The activists creatively innovated as they borrowed from earlier dissent traditions and from other social movements abroad. For the government, the process of learning how to manage contention with means other than their usual repression tactics was much longer, and it is not over. As it slowly transits from Soviet past to democracy, Ukraine continues its development into a "social movement society

Authoritarianism · Autocracy · Civil society · Contentious politics · Democracy · Dissent · Nexus (standard) · Opposition (politics) · Political dissent · Political economy · Political opportunity · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · State (computer science) · Ukrainian · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Soviet and Russian History