政治
有争议的政治
动员
国家(计算机科学)
政治机会
政治经济学
政治学
政府(语言学)
中介的
社会学
公共行政
社会运动
法学
经济
语言学
哲学
财务
算法
计算机科学
作者
Patrick Hunnicutt,Kou Gbaintor-Johnson
标识
DOI:10.1177/00220027231211530
摘要
What explains protest mobilization in areas of limited statehood, where the government struggles to make and enforce rules? We adapt existing theory to explain protest mobilization through a comparative perspective, beginning with the proposition that informal political elites who mediate citizens’ interactions with the government in areas of limited statehood represent a crucial but understudied source of political opportunity. We specifically argue that informal political elites who are effective intermediaries between citizens and the state moderate the relationship between grievances and protest at the individual-level. Six months of fieldwork in Liberia substantiates this claim. Leveraging an original, high-frequency household panel dataset, we demonstrate how informal political elites called “community chairpeople” moderate the otherwise positive association between public service shortages and protest. Qualitative data collected through focus groups and interviews provide further evidence of how informal political elites shape protest mobilization in settings where the state is weak.
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