Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267491 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 026.2022
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Citizens political participation to protests is a crucial issue for any political system, whether democratic or autocratic. Political systems have different ways of dealing with citizens' protests, determining cost and benefit of public dissent, responding to public requests and allowing different degree of transparency in public information. Also the social characteristics of a country, such as citizens' diversity and radicalization, matter for citizens political participation. The aim of this paper is to analyze causes and consequences of citizens' protests, focusing on how private and public information affect citizens' opinion and political behavior, and on how they depend on sociopolitical factors as well as on the political regime. In Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs, Bueno de Mesquita proposed a seminal model to study why revolutionary vanguards might use violence to mobilize citizens against a regime. We claim that the model can be used more generally to investigate citizens' protest. We refer to his model to understand citizens' political behavior, studying the relationship between the model's structural parameters and the causes and consequences of citizens'protests, adopting a partially different approach and extending his results.
Subjects: 
protests
political regimes
sociopolitical variables
JEL: 
C72
D74
P48
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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