eprintid: 1530923
rev_number: 27
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2017-03-09 15:00:10
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creators_name: Schwartz, C
title: The Paradox of Confrontation: Experimental Evidence on the Audience Effects of Protest
ispublished: unpub
divisions: A01
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F52
note: Copyright © 2016 - European Political Science Association
abstract: Do protests increase political engagement among the general public? It is often necessary for social movements to induce widespread political engagement
in order to gain leverage over elected officials, but this consequence of protest activity has never been tested or verified. Indeed, empirical research
on the public effects of protests has largely been handicapped by methodological limitations. I designed a two-pronged experimental design that causally identifies the effects of protest exposure. The first stage uses a
vignette experiment in Mexico to capture indirect exposure, and the second stage uses a field experiment to directly expose the same respondents to real
street protests. All of the treatments for the vignette and field experiments piggyback off of the 2014-2015 protests against organized crime in Mexico. Through this two-pronged experiment, I find that the form of exposure is critical in identifying the engaging effects of protests. While the general public might become enthusiastic and engaged upon hearing news of mass
mobilization, the same people tend to disengage when faced with an actual protest.
date: 2016-06
date_type: published
publisher: European Political Science Association
official_url: http://www.epsanet.org/conference-2016/
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1195176
lyricists_name: Schwartz, Cassilde
lyricists_id: CSCHW83
actors_name: Schwartz, Cassilde
actors_id: CSCHW83
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
series: Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association
volume: 6
place_of_pub: Brussels, Belgium
event_title: 6th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association
event_location: Brussels, Belgium
institution: European Political Science Association Annual Meeting
book_title: Proceedings of the 6th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association
citation:        Schwartz, C;      (2016)    The Paradox of Confrontation: Experimental Evidence on the Audience Effects of Protest.                     In:  Proceedings of the 6th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association.    European Political Science Association: Brussels, Belgium.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1530923/1/DirectEffectsMSC_v2.pdf