Replication Data for: Protest Brokers and the Technology of Mobilization: Evidence from South Africa

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 documented the wide variety of mobilization tactics they use. While such arguments go some way towards explaining protest patterns, however, the literature has so far struggled to explain why some elites are able to employ these mobilization tactics so much more effectively than others. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa, I argue that closer attention to the technology of mobilization helps to explain these patterns. Specifically, I identify the critical role played by protest brokers – intermediaries who connect elites desiring mobilization with potential protesters. Without these brokers, I argue, many elites lack the local knowledge, connections, and trust necessary to mobilize collective action, significantly decreasing the likelihood of protest occurrence, and helping to explain where protests happen. Replication data includes: 1. Two replication datasets (SJL_CPS_Replication Dataset & SJL_CPS_Replication Dataset Apartheid) 2. R code to create Table C.2: Regression Analysis (for case selection) 3. South African Protest Dataset (SAPD) codebook to accompany the subset SAPD data in the replication datasets 4. Overview of Data – a document containing information on all the variables in the two replication datasets为何部分社群会发起抗议以谋求变革，而其他看似相似的社群却无此举动？现有大量研究文献指出，精英阶层在此过程中发挥着关键作用，并记录了他们所采用的各类动员策略。尽管此类论点在一定程度上解释了抗议的发生模式，但截至目前，相关研究仍难以阐释为何部分精英能够远比其他精英更高效地运用此类动员策略。本文基于在南非开展的民族志田野工作（ethnographic fieldwork）提出，对动员技术的深入关注有助于解释上述现象。具体而言，本文指出抗议经纪人（protest brokers）——即连接渴望发起动员的精英与潜在抗议者的中介者——所扮演的关键角色。本文认为，若缺乏这类中介者，多数精英将缺少开展集体行动动员所需的本土知识、人脉与信任，这会大幅降低抗议发生的可能性，进而有助于解释抗议的发生地域差异。本研究的复现数据包含：1. 两份复现数据集（SJL_CPS_Replication Dataset 与 SJL_CPS_Replication Dataset Apartheid）；2. 用于创建表C.2的R代码：回归分析（用于案例选择）；3. 配套复现数据集中子样本南非抗议数据集（South African Protest Dataset, SAPD）的编码手册；4. 数据概览——一份涵盖两份复现数据集所有变量信息的文档。