Spontaneous Collective Action: Peripheral Mobilization During the Arab Spring
Spontaneous Collective Action: Peripheral Mobilization During the Arab Spring
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自发的集体行动：阿拉伯之春期间的外围动员
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
Zachary C. Steinert
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作者：
Zachary C. Steinert
谁负责抗议动员？疾病和信息传播模型表明，那些处于社交网络中心（核心）的人应该比那些人脉较少的人有更强的动员他人的能力。相反，本文认为，那些不在网络中心（外围）的人可以产生集体行动，特别是在独裁政权大规模抗议的背景下。为了表明社交网络核心的人对抗议水平没有影响，本文开发了 2010 年至 2011 年 14 个月内中东和北非 16 个国家每日抗议的数据集。它将该数据集与同一时期的地理编码、个人级别的通信相结合，并测量每个人的联系数量。事实证明，外围地区的人对抗议程度的变化负有责任，一些证据表明，核心地区的动员努力导致抗议活动减少。这些结果对依赖于相互依赖的决策的广泛社会选择具有影响。
Who is responsible for protest mobilization? Models of disease and information diffusion suggest that those central to a social network (the core) should have a greater ability to mobilize others than those who are less well-connected. To the contrary, this article argues that those not central to a network (the periphery) can generate collective action, especially in the context of large-scale protests in authoritarian regimes. To show that those in the core of a social network have no effect on levels of protest, this article develops a dataset of daily protests across 16 countries in the Middle East and North Africa over 14 months from 2010 through 2011. It combines that dataset with geocoded, individual-level communication from the same period and measures the number of connections of each person. Those on the periphery are shown to be responsible for changing levels of protest, with some evidence suggesting that the core’s mobilization efforts lead to fewer protests. These results have implications for a wide range of social choices that rely on interdependent decision making.