A ‘leftist premium’ to protest movements
How incumbent partisanship conditions austerity-spurred mass protest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9537657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Junpei Suzuki (0000-0003-2701-742X, Waseda University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 124-144 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Acta Politica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-6810 • E-ISSN: 1741-1416 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/s41269-022-00283-2 |
| OpenAlex | W4315785711 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Fiscal austerity is a policy characteristic of governments that adhere to conservative economic ideologies. In recent decades, however, especially after the 2009 Eurozone Crisis, leftist and left-centre coalition governments have also adopted austerity policies. While it is documented that fiscal austerity incurs electoral costs upon incumbent governments and these costs depend on their partisanship, whether and how the partisanship of the incumbent government affects the pattern of protest movements remains unknown. In this paper, I hypothesized that fiscal austerity by leftist governments, through adding a ‘premium’ to public grievances and demining citizens’ utility of electoral participation, results in a higher likelihood of protest movements than fiscal austerity implemented by right-dominant governments. I supported this hypothesis by analysing panel data for 37 developed countries between 1973 and 2015. Besides, the partisan-pronounced effects on the protest likelihood are observed particularly for non-violent protests such as demonstrations and strikes and for the post-2000 era
Austerity · Economic policy · Economics · Fiscal imbalance · Fiscal policy · Fiscal union · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Keynesian economics · Left-wing politics · Panel data · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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The asymmetric long-term electoral consequences of unpopular reforms
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Beyond Left and Right
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European anti-austerity and pro-democracy protests in the wake of the global financial crisis
Political Parties and Macroeconomic Policy
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |