Protest against containment policies in US states is fueled by two drivers: the stringency of containment policies and the partisan control over the governorship and legislatures in each state. In our
This survey covers participants of the early phase of the protests on Kyiv’s central Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) which became known as Euromaidan or Revolution of...
Citizens have long taken to the streets to demand change, expressing political views that may otherwise be suppressed. Protests have produced change at local, national, and international scales, inclu
Why do some communities protest to demand change, while other seemingly similar communities do not? A large body of literature has found that elites play an important role in this regard, and document
This article elaborates relative deprivation theory to a societal level to argue that political unrest is rooted in the polarization of citizens’ grievance judgments, rather than the mean level of soc
