Doctoral Dissertation Research: Cross-National Research on Protest, Social Policy, and Political Regimes

在这一建议中，PI调查了国家内部的再分配政策如何因政权类型而异。该研究特别关注政府如何针对再分配行动，以支持他们视为重要支持者的特定群体。为了探讨政权类型的影响，该提案比较了一个专制国家和一个向民主过渡的国家关于再分配政策的决定。虽然2011年的大规模示威活动给两国都带来了巨大压力，但一个独裁政权幸存了下来，而另一个则经历了转型。自2011年以来，与社会和劳工政策相关的运动在专制情况下比在民主化情况下从再分配政策中获益更多。这一发现代表了一个谜，激发了这一提议。在这项研究中，PI试图了解发展中国家的政权过渡如何影响社会运动的成功，以赢得政府的再分配让步。此外，这项工作将调查政治运动的特征，这些特征决定了国家是否会回应他们的要求。为了评估这些问题，PI将构建一个来自世界关键地区两个国家的地方一级抗议活动的数据集。在这项提案中，PI试图调查社会运动团体在赢得国家再分配政策让步方面的成功或失败。特别地，PI寻求解决两个特定的研究目标。首先，她的目标是追溯2005年至2015年两个国家社会经济动员的变化，特别关注抗议运动的频率、扩散、组织和曲目的变化。其次，鉴于这些模式，该项目试图解释不符合现有理论预期的社会政策反应趋势。PI认为，再分配政策让步的模式取决于寻求民主的社会运动的成功或失败。就成功的民主化革命而言，我们发现了预期会导致更大的国家反应的特征的放大，即社会经济动员的频率、扩散和组织。然而，在“失败的”革命中，政治精英对威胁的感知使他们在面对抗议运动时更快地做出政策让步。该项目开发了一种多方法研究设计，其中PI建议在2005年至2015年期间在两个国家构建抗议事件和相应国家反应的原始数据集。这些数据集将使用一系列当地报纸来构建。接下来，PI将对两种情况下的平行社会运动进行定性比较研究。这一项目将完成一个数据库，对全国一级的抗议、罢工、静坐和暴力事件进行分类。

In this proposal, the PI investigates how redistributive policies within countries vary by regime type. In particular, the study focuses on how governments target redistributive actions to favor specific groups they see as important supporters. To explore how regime types matter, the proposal compares decisions regarding redistributive policy in one authoritarian country and one country transitioning to democracy. While both states experienced notable stress resulting from mass demonstrations in 2011, the one authoritarian regime survived, while the other experienced a transition. Since 2011, movements associated with social and labor policies have benefitted more from redistributive policies in the authoritarian case than in the democratizing case. This finding represents a puzzle that motivates this proposal. In this study, the PI seeks to learn how regime transition in developing countries influences the success of social movements to win redistributive concessions from the government. Additionally, the work will investigate the characteristics of political movements that determine whether the state will or will not respond to their demands. To assess these questions, the PI will construct a dataset of local-level protests from two countries in a key part of the world. TechnicalIn this proposal, the PI seeks to investigate how social movement groups succeed or fail in their ability to win redistributive policy concessions from the state. In particular, the PI seeks to address two particular research goals. First, she aims to trace changes in socioeconomic mobilization in two countries from 2005 to 2015, paying particular attention to shifts in the frequency, diffusion, organization, and repertoires of protest movements. Second, given these patterns, the project seeks to account for trends in social policy responses that do not comply with existing theoretical expectations. The PI argues that patterns of redistributive policy concessions differ depending upon the success or failure of social movements seeking democracy. With respect to successful democratizing revolutions, we find an amplification of the characteristics expected to lead to greater state responses, i.e. the frequency, diffusion, and organization of socioeconomic mobilization. In 'failed' revolutions, however, the perceptions of threat experienced by the political elites leads them to grant policy concessions more quickly when faced with protest movements. The project develops a multi-method research design in which the PI proposes to construct original datasets of protest events and corresponding state response in two countries during the period 2005 to 2015. These datasets will be constructed using a range of local newspapers. Next, the PI will undertake qualitative comparative studies of parallel social movements in both cases. This project will result in the completion of a database that catalogues protests, strikes, sit-ins, and violent events on a national level.