After decades of multiparty politics, Turkey is no longer a democracy. A theory-upending
case, the country has descended into a competitive authoritarian regime under the Justice …

The central cleavage of Turkish politics has created a fertile ground for certain parties to
adopt a populist strategy since the first free and fair elections in 1950. In contemporary …

When people learn that demonstrators are being subjected to harsh treatment by the police,
sometimes their reaction is to join demonstrations. What explains the potentially mobilizing …

One of the challenges of autocratizing governments in regimes with nominally democratic
institutions is how to repress fundamental democratic rights while claiming to uphold the rule …

Why do vote-suppression efforts sometimes fail? Why does police repression of
demonstrators sometimes turn localized protests into massive, national movements? How …

How and why does protest shape participants' attitudes? We study this issue using panel
data gathered both before and after Ukraine's Euromaidan protests. We argue that frames …

Social media use is positively associated with political participation, but does this
relationship persist when traditional and social media are restricted by the government? We …

Economic vulnerability has been linked to pro-democracy protests in autocracies. This study
suggests that the economically vulnerable are also more likely to participate in protests in …

This study examines crowd reactions to police use of force at a protest outside of a 2017
campaign-style rally held by US President Donald Trump in Phoenix, Arizona. We rely on a …

Protests erupted in many nations around the world in 2019 and 2020, some peaceful and
some violent. The police response to these protests varied widely, from calm and restrained …