Accepted Paper
Paper short abstract
In what ways do protest grievances and strategies vary by regime-type? This paper answers this question through a mixed-method study of a unique global protest event dataset of 96 countries and case-based protest dataset of three electoral autocracies: Pakistan, Nigeria, and Mozambique.
Paper long abstract
This article analyses variation in protests across regimes by focusing on two aspects of protests: grievances and strategies. In doing so, it builds on Tilly’s work on regimes and repertoires. It uses a multi-method design by using a unique global dataset that combines two existing global datasets with case-based analysis. The global dataset reveals that while the number of protests reduces as the regime-type becomes more autocratic, the order of distribution of protest grievances is the same across regimes: political failure, economic injustice, civil rights and global justice. This is followed by how macro-level analysis of variations in protest grievances across regime types by combining two global datasets on protest grievances and regime-types. It compliments this global analysis with an original qualitatively-rich protest event dataset from three electoral autocracies, Pakistan, Mozambique and Nigeria to offer qualitative insights on strategic choices made in the context of their regime.
Making sense of protests in south Asia and beyond: implications for democratic participation and accountability