Repression, Grievances, Mobilization, and Rebellion: A New Test of Gurr's Model of Ethnopolitical Rebellion
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 87-116
ISSN: 1547-7444
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In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 87-116
ISSN: 1547-7444
In: The public manager: the new bureaucrat, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 34-39
ISSN: 1061-7639
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 87-116
ISSN: 0305-0629
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Working paper
In: Journal of peace research, Band 41, S. 25-46
ISSN: 0022-3433
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In: Journal of peace research, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 25-46
ISSN: 0022-3433
In: Journal of peace research, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 25-46
ISSN: 1460-3578
Previous models of nationalism have been unable to adequately account for variation in forms or levels of contentious nationalist activity. Building on the most important theoretical tools from the literatures on social movements and nationalism, an alternative model is proposed in which structure, politics, and action assume equal roles in an interdependent causal system. It is further proposed that violent and nonviolent contention, though conceptually distinct phenomena, are the products of a fundamentally similar set of factors. The model posits that sociostructural 'root causes' are vital to the development of ethnonationalist contentious politics, but indirectly via mobilization. The direct determinants of protest and rebellion are a conjunction of organizational mobilization and political opportunity structures. In particular, a shared identity gives groups of people the basis for organizational mobilization; mobilizational resources provide the means for such mobilization; grievances lend the reason; and a series of political factors structure the opportunities of mobilized groups to contend in a conventional, violent or nonviolent manner. The opportunity structures are then themselves transformed by the nature of the contention that takes place. Using a 3SLS structural equation model and original data from the 17 autonomous communities of Spain between 1977 and 1996, the results show that structure, politics, and action are, as predicted, three fundamental components of an interdependent causal system. The vital, yet indirect role of grievances and group identity in the generation of ethnonationalist conflict is confirmed, and a number of powerful relationships obtain with the individual elements of the political opportunity structure. Higher levels of democracy are related to increased protest, more intense repression is associated with lower levels of contentious activity, and the level of regional autonomy has no apparent impact on conflict. In the short term, moreover, Spain's major democratic transition is shown to exacerbate existing conflict propensities.
In: International Interactions, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 87-116
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In: Journal of Peace Research, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 25-46
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Working paper
In: International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Band 36, Heft 2020
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In: Journal of Business Ethics, Band 158, S. 333-351
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In: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Band 48, S. 28-49
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In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly: journal of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 5-26
ISSN: 1552-7395
The social media era ushers in an increasingly "noisy" information environment that renders it more difficult for nonprofit advocacy organizations to make their voices heard. How then can an organization gain attention on social media? We address this question by building and testing a model of the effectiveness of the Twitter use of advocacy organizations. Using number of retweets and number of favorites as proxies of attention, we test our hypotheses with a 12-month panel dataset that collapses by month and organization the 219,915 tweets sent by 145 organizations in 2013. We find that attention is strongly associated with the size of an organization's network, its frequency of speech, and the number of conversations it joins. We also find a seemingly contradictory relationship between different measures of attention and an organization's targeting and connecting strategy.
In: International Journal of Communication, Band 10, S. 1764-1785
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