Gender ideologies and forms of contentious mobilization in the Middle East

Bibliographic Data

ID3918368
AuthorsVictor Asal (0000-0001-7614-4869, Department of Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York, corresponding author), Richard Legault (Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate, Washington, DC), Richard L Legault (United States Department of Homeland Security), Ora Szekely (0000-0002-0730-1768, Clark University), Jonathan Wilkenfeld (0009-0004-2341-4561, Department of Government & Politics, University of Maryland)
Year2013
Volume50
Issue3
Pages305-318
Publication date2013-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022343313476528
OpenAlexW1973042243
LanguageEN
Citations received66
References cited60

This article explores those factors that shape a political organization's choice of tactics in political mobilization with a particular focus on the influence of gender ideology on the choice of different type of contentious action. To understand why political organizations engaging in contentious politics choose to employ violent tactics, nonviolent tactics, or a mixture of both, current scholarship has tended to focus on factors such as relationship with the government, external support, and religious or leftist ideology. Far less attention has been given to the role of an organization's ideology relating to gender when predicting its behavior. In addition, much of the analysis of contentious activity has analyzed the use of violence or protest separately and rarely examines the choice of a mixed strategy. We employ a time-series multinomial logistic regression analysis to examine the Middle East Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior dataset (MAROB), including data over 24 years on 104 ethno-political organizations that have used a range of tactics including protest, violence, and/or a mix of the two, to investigate organizational and state-level variables that lead organizations to choose different strategies. We find that a number of variables can influence a movement's choice to engage in one strategy over another. Gender-inclusive ideology makes an organization more likely to engage in protest and less likely to choose a violent or mixed strategy

Contentious politics · Ideology · Left-wing politics · Mobilization · Multinomial logistic regression · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scholarship · Social movement · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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