Why Democracy Protests Do Not Diffuse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6284053 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dawn Brancati (0000-0003-0392-7154, Columbia University, corresponding author), Adrián Lucardi (0000-0002-3284-4860, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 2354-2389 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002718815957 |
| OpenAlex | W2905648590 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 66 |
One of the primary international factors proposed to explain the geographic and temporal clustering of democracy is the diffusion of democracy protests. Democracy protests are thought to diffuse across countries, primarily, through a demonstration effect, whereby protests in one country cause protests in another based on the positive information that they convey about the likelihood of successful protests elsewhere and, secondarily, through the actions of transnational activists. In contrast to this view, we argue that, in general, democracy protests are not likely to diffuse across countries because the motivation for and the outcome of democracy protests result from domestic processes that are unaffected or undermined by the occurrence of democracy protests in other countries. Our statistical analysis supports this argument. Using daily data on the onset of democracy protests around the world between 1989 and 2011, we find that in this period, democracy protests were not significantly more likely to occur in countries when democracy protests had occurred in neighboring countries, either in general or in ways consistent with the expectations of diffusion arguments
Argument (complex analysis · Democracy · Development economics · Direct democracy · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Medicine · Political Conflict and Governance
Mobilization for and against Democracy
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Learning about principles or prospects for success? An experimental analysis of information support for nonviolent resistance
Money backfires
What We (Do Not) Know about the Diffusion of Democracy Protests
Causal Evidence for Theories of Contagious Civil Unrest
The Global Diffusion of the #MeToo Movement
Does Learning About Protest Abroad Inform Individuals’ Attitudes About Protest at Home? Experimental Evidence from Egypt
Rethinking Democratic Diffusion
Criminal Victimization and Agency Attitudes in Mexico
Struggle, politics, and reform
The Making of the Tunisian Revolution
Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America
Elections in Europe
The New Transnational Activism
The Diffusion of Social Movements
Making Waves
The Social Media Basis of Youth Protest Behavior
Mobilizing for Democracy
The Color Revolutions
Electoral Protest and Democracy in the Developing World
Democracy Protests
Mostly Harmless Econometrics
The Cingranelli and Richards (Ciri) Human Rights Data Project
Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements
Democracy and Redistribution
Power in Movement
Learning and the diffusion of regime contention in the Arab Spring
Authoritarian Learning and Authoritarian Resilience
Uncivil society
The Geography of the International System
When Conflict Spreads
Sparks and prairie fires
Democratic Experiments in Africa
The Cross-National Diffusion of Movement Ideas
Economic Crises and the European Revolutions of 1848
Regime Cycles
Now out of Never
The Diffusion of Revolution
More than Just the Final Straw
Diffusion-Proofing
The Dynamics of Informational Cascades
Geographic Diffusion and the Transformation of the Postcommunist World
Policy Emulation or Policy Convergence? Potential Ambiguities in the Dyadic Event History Approach to State Policy Emulation
Third-Party Actors and the Success of Democracy
Forward to democracy or back to authoritarianism? The attitudinal bases of mass support for the Russian election protests of 2011–2012
Which Elections Can Be Lost
The Arab Spring
Structure and Example in Modular Political Phenomena
Enough! Electoral Fraud, Collective Action Problems, and Post-Communist Colored Revolutions
Favorable Conditions and Electoral Revolutions
Democratic Dominoes Revisited
Democratic Dominoes
Contagious Rebellion and Preemptive Repression
Of Dominoes and Firewalls
Choosing Your Neighbors
Information and Self-Enforcing Democracy
From Shocks to Waves
Diffusion and the International Context of Democratization
Diffusion or Confusion? Clustered Shocks and the Conditional Diffusion of Democracy
Diffusion Is No Illusion
Regime Change Cascades
The Democratic Domino Theory
International diffusion and postcommunist electoral revolutions
On Waves, Clusters, and Diffusion
Interactive Diffusion
Why was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring in North Africa
Tracking Democracy's Third Wave with the Polity III Data
The Semblance of Democratic Revolution
The Demise of the Soviet Bloc
The Student Divestment Movement in the United States and Tactical Diffusion
Adding Social Structure to Diffusion Models
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |