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Inspiring Regime Change
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Monotone and bounded interval equilibria in a coordination game with information aggregation
In: Mathematical social sciences, Band 89, S. 61-69
Reward and Punishment in a Regime Change Game
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When Can Citizen Communication Hinder Successful Revolution?
In: Quarterly journal of political science: QJPS, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 301-323
ISSN: 1554-0634
Vanguards in Revolution
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Institutions, Repression and the Spread of Protest
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A Theory of State Censorship
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Collective Action with Uncertain Payoffs: Coordination, Public Signals, and Punishment Dilemmas
In: American political science review, Band 105, Heft 4, S. 829-851
ISSN: 1537-5943
How can one analyze collective action in protests or revolutions when individuals are uncertain about the relative payoffs of the status quo and revolution? We model a "calculus of protest" of individuals who must either submit to the status quo or support revolt based only on personal information about their payoffs. In deciding whether to revolt, the citizen must infer both the benefit of successful revolution and the likely actions of other citizens. We characterize conditions under which payoff uncertainty overturns conventional wisdom: (a) when a citizen is too willing to revolt, hereducesthe incentives of others to revolt; (b) less accurate information about the value of revolution can make revoltmorelikely; (c) public signals from other citizens canreducethe likelihood of revolt; (d) harsher punishment canincreasethe incidence of punishment; and (e) the incidence of protest can bepositivelycorrelated with that of repression.
Collective Action with Uncertain Payoffs: Coordination, Public Signals and Punishment Dilemmas
In: APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
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Collective Action with Uncertain Payoffs: Coordination, Public Signals, and Punishment Dilemmas
In: American political science review, Band 105, Heft 4, S. 829-852
ISSN: 0003-0554
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Coordination Games with Strategic Delegation of Pivotality
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Grievance shocks and coordination in protest
In: American journal of political science
ISSN: 1540-5907
AbstractWhen grievance shocks have heavy tails, large sudden increases in grievances coordinate behavior far more effectively into protests than a sequence of small grievance shocks that generate the same final distribution of grievances in society. That is, society as a whole behaves like the legendary boiling frog, even though each individual does not. An implication is a strong form of path‐dependence in collective action. To assess a society's potential for protest, it is not enough to know the current distribution of antiregime sentiments; we also need to know how they came about: suddenly or gradually. The theory also provides a rationale for the classic J‐curve theory of revolution. We provide a quantitative analysis of the relationship between grievance shocks and protests in Chile in 2014–2019. Consistent with the theory, results suggest that, even after controlling for grievance levels, large grievance shocks increased the number of protests.