Political protest in latin american countries:

the relationship between the political opportunity context and resource mobilization framework

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https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-5269.131762

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Since the 1970s, the literature on social movements and protest has pointed to the importance of political opportunity context and resource mobilization structures that make protest actions more feasible. The main hypotheses of these theories argue that there is a curvilinear relationship between political context and protests and that greater resource disposition is related to more protests. The aim of this paper is to test these two propositions for Latin American country contexts. Using 56 samples from 17 countries, available in the World Value Survey (WVS) repository, and the political indicators provided by Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), we test different scenarios and analyze in which of them protest is more frequent. Our results do not support the curvilinearity hypothesis and suggest that higher resource disposition is related to higher protest frequency.

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Daniel Leonel da Rocha, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

Doutorando em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro e bolsista FAPERJ. Desenvolve pesquisas com interface entre protestos e ideologia em países latino-americanos. É integrante do Laboratório de Estudos Políticos e Pesquisas da Metrópole (LEPPEM) e do Grupo de Pesquisa Cultura Política, Comportamento e Democracia (CPDC-UEM).

Ednaldo Aparecido Ribeiro, Universidade Estadual de Maringá

Professor associado do Departamento de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Estadual de Maringá. Bolsista produtividade do CNPQ, nível 2. É doutor em Sociologia pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (2008) e desenvolve pesquisas na área de comportamento político, principalmente sobre valores, atitudes democráticas e participação política. Autor dos livros Valores pós-materialistas e cultura política no Brasil (2011) e Participação política na América Latina (2015), além de artigos em periódicos como Dados, Brazilian Political Science Review e Opinião Pública.

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Published

2023-08-31

How to Cite

da Rocha, D. L., & Aparecido Ribeiro, E. (2023). Political protest in latin american countries:: the relationship between the political opportunity context and resource mobilization framework. Revista Debates, 17(2), 201–239. https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-5269.131762

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023): The impact of political crises on youth political culture and democracy in Brazil

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