Explaining differential protest participation: Novices, returners, repeaters, and stalwarts
Explaining differential protest participation: Novices, returners, repeaters, and stalwarts
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解释不同的抗议参与：新手、回归者、重复者和坚定者
DOI：
10.17813/maiq.17.3.bqm553573058t478
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
C. Rootes
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作者：
C. Saunders;M. Grasso;Cristiana Olcese;Emily Rainsford;C. Rootes
关于参与抗议活动的学术研究往往侧重于初学者和高度忠于职守的人的特殊特征，而淡化了介于两者之间的人的重要性。在这篇文章中，我们通过将注意力重新集中在四种不同类型的抗议者上来填补文献中的空白-新手、返回者、重复者和坚定的抗议者。我们测试这四种类型的抗议者是否通过传记/结构可用性和/或心理/态度参与来区分。我们使用的数据来自七个欧洲国家(2009-2010年)的六次五一抗议调查和四次气候变化示威活动。我们的结果表明，传记的可用性区分了我们的四个群体，但不是直接作为一个程度问题。很少有结构可获得性的指标区分抗议者群体，情感因素也根本不能区分他们。虽然一些政治参与因素在程度上区分了这两个群体，但另一些因素表明，新手和返乡者之间有相似之处。这证实了避免将抗议者视为同质群体的必要性，并加强了评估不同因素对维持“抗议政治”的贡献的重要性。
Scholarly work on protest participation has tended to focus on the special characteristics of first-timers and the highly committed, underplaying the significance of those in between. In this article, we fill a lacuna in the literature by refocusing attention on four different types of protesters – novices, returners, repeaters and stalwarts. We test whether these four types of protesters are differentiated by biographical/structural availability and/or psychological/attitudinal engagement. We employ data from protest surveys of six May Day and four climate change demonstrations that took place in seven European countries (2009-2010). Our results suggest that biographic availability distinguishes our four groups, but not straightforwardly as a matter of degree. Few indicators of structural availability distinguish between the groups of protesters, and emotional factors do not distinguish between them at all. Whilst some political engagement factors distinguish between the groups as a matter of degree, others suggest similarity between novices and returners. This confirms the need to avoid treating protesters as a homogenous group and reinforces the importance of assessing the contributions of diverse factors to sustaining ‘protest politics’.