Objectives The article analyzes the epidemiological and political logics of protest against
containment policies in Germany. To maximize the mobilization potential, protest organizers …

In 2020, police brutality against Black Americans catalyzed Black Lives Matter (BLM)
protests across all 50 states. Though BLM protests continue to permeate society, few …

The article analyzes relative deprivation as a possible factor of sociopolitical instability
during the Arab Spring events using the methods of correlation and multiple regression …

Ethnographic practice in contentious and high-risk spaces raises important ethical and
methodological questions. When working with grassroots activists who actively avoid forms …

Perceptions of violated entitlement resulting from group-based relative deprivation shape
attitudes and behaviors decisively. Drawing on social identity theory, I hypothesize that …

Drawing interview material, together with extensive data from the authors' original social
movement database, this book examines the development of social movements in …

Devastating incidents in which children have accessed their parents' unsecured guns and
used them to kill themselves or others have occurred with alarming frequency across the …

Much research examines the state-dissident nexus by large-n studies and rational choice
theories. This article contributes an analysis of dissident reasoning through a computational …

In this article, we contribute to the analysis of protest participation on a gradient from non-to
actual participation. Using survey data from six European countries, we take the analysis …

This paper examines developments in Poland following the 2015 elections and in Hungary
since 2010, which included the gradual destruction of democratic institutions, challenges to …