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Fang Deng - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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unintended outcomes of social Movements the 1989 chinese Student Movement
2010Co-Authors: Fang DengAbstract:1. Understanding Unintended Outcomes of Social Movements 2. A Brief History of the Chinese Student Movement for Democracy 3. Anti-threat Resistance: A Game with Incomplete Information 4. State's Sub-optimal Strategies: A Two-level Game 5. Short-term Gain and Long-term Loss for the Participants: The Dynamics of Repeated 6. Information Gap and Bloody Confrontation: The Final Game Appendix
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information gaps and unintended outcomes of social Movements the 1989 chinese Student Movement
American Journal of Sociology, 1997Co-Authors: Fang DengAbstract:Under what conditions will threats made by a state hinder social Movements? And under what conditions will intended or unintended outcomes occur as a result? This article addresses these questions by applying a dynamic model that depicts the 1989 Chinese Student Movement as a three-iteration game with incomplete information. In this model, the Chinese government is willing ultimately to suppress the Student resistance by force, but since it is playing a two-level game, it conceals its preferences as private information while initially choosing not to use force. In the end, many demonstrators died believing that the People's Liberation Army would never harm the Chinese people. This model suggests how an information gap can lead to unintended and undesirable outcomes, even when actors behave rationally.
Sofia Donoso - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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“Outsider” and “Insider” Strategies: Chile’s Student Movement, 1990–2014
Social Movements in Chile, 2017Co-Authors: Sofia DonosoAbstract:The protest waves spearheaded by Students in recent years have shaped the political agenda in Chile in ways that few would have anticipated before 2011. This chapter traces the development of the Student Movement since 1990, with a focus on the 2001, 2006, and 2011 protests. It emphasizes the Movement’s strategy-making as a relational process in which the responses of the political establishment to Movement demands shape the subsequent formulation of petitions and tactics to employ. It is argued that the Student Movement’s accumulation of experiences has motivated the concurrent employment of “outsider” and “insider” strategies. The chapter concludes that while always in tension, the development of the Student Movement has resulted in an increased capacity to use both types of strategies in complementary ways.
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outsider and insider strategies chile s Student Movement 1990 2014
2017Co-Authors: Sofia DonosoAbstract:The protest waves spearheaded by Students in recent years have shaped the political agenda in Chile in ways that few would have anticipated before 2011. This chapter traces the development of the Student Movement since 1990, with a focus on the 2001, 2006, and 2011 protests. It emphasizes the Movement’s strategy-making as a relational process in which the responses of the political establishment to Movement demands shape the subsequent formulation of petitions and tactics to employ. It is argued that the Student Movement’s accumulation of experiences has motivated the concurrent employment of “outsider” and “insider” strategies. The chapter concludes that while always in tension, the development of the Student Movement has resulted in an increased capacity to use both types of strategies in complementary ways.
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when social Movements become a democratizing force the political impact of the Student Movement in chile
2016Co-Authors: Sofia DonosoAbstract:Abstract Drawing on debates on deliberative and participatory democracy, I argue that social Movements can be considered to be promoting democratization when they are able to compel governments to increase effective participation in the policy-making process, and/or when their democratic claims are translated into an agenda and/or policy impact. This indicates that a social Movement has increased the responsiveness of the government it is challenging. Based on this premise, in this paper, I trace the political impact of the Student Movement in Chile. Spearheading the largest protests since the reinstatement of democracy, in 2006, and most notably, in 2011, the Student Movement forced a debate on education and political reforms, and a series of policies to address these issues. The analysis is grounded on more than 50 interviews, and an exhaustive analysis of organizational documents and newspaper data. The case examined in this paper illustrates how the expansion of political opportunities that is necessary for pursuing democratizing reforms not only is driven “from above,” but also “from below.” Studying this process, social Movement scholarship can learn a great deal from recent cases of social mobilization in Latin America. These experiences also call for more attention to the role of social Movements in democratization studies.
Felipe Gonzalez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Collective action in networks: Evidence from the Chilean Student Movement
Journal of Public Economics, 2020Co-Authors: Felipe GonzalezAbstract:Abstract Hundreds of thousands of high-school Students skipped school during the 2011 Student Movement in Chile to protest and reform educational institutions. Using administrative data of daily school attendance I present causal evidence of complementarities in school skipping decisions within Student networks in national protest days. Identification relies on partially overlapping networks and within school exposure to an inaugural college protest. A structural estimation of a coordination game with incomplete information also supports the existence of these complementarities. Importantly, I show that skipping school imposed significant educational costs on Students but it also helped to shift votes towards non-traditional candidates more aligned with their demands.
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collective action in networks evidence from the chilean Student Movement
Social Science Research Network, 2017Co-Authors: Felipe GonzalezAbstract:Hundreds of thousands of Students skipped school during the 2011 Student Movement in Chile to protest and reform educational institutions. Using administrative data on millions of Students’ daily school attendance decisions on protest and non-protest days, a large network composed by the lifetime history of classmates, and differential network exposure to the first national protest, this paper tests how networks affect protest behavior. The main finding is that individual participation follows a threshold model of collective behavior: Students were influenced by their networks to skip school on protest days only when more than 40 percent of the members of their networks also skipped school. Additional findings show that protest participation imposed significant educational costs on Students and helped to shift votes towards non-traditional opposition parties. Taken together, results indicate that networks amplify the effect of protests in non-linear ways with potentially significant consequences for institutional change.
Lorenzo Zamponi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Contentious Memories of the Italian Student Movement: The ‘Long 1968’ in the Field of Public Memory
Social Movements Memory and Media, 2018Co-Authors: Lorenzo ZamponiAbstract:This chapter focuses on the analysis of media representations of the Student Movement of the 1960s and 1970s in Italy. After summarising the most widespread representations of this wave of mobilisation in the Italian public debate (Sects. 1, 2, and 3), a qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles regarding two very significant events of the Student protests of the 1960s and 1970s will show the predominant narratives regarding those protests and their evolution in time (Sects. 4, 5, and 6). These media representations of the Italian Student Movement of the 1960s and 1970s will then be compared, in Chap. 7, with the representations of the same past emerging from the interview with contemporary activists, and the outcomes of these comparisons will allow us to reconstruct the way in which activists access different repositories of memory.
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Contentious Memories of the Spanish Student Movement: Representations of the Spanish 1968 in the Public Memory of the Transition
Social Movements Memory and Media, 2018Co-Authors: Lorenzo ZamponiAbstract:This chapter reproduces in the Spanish context the same analyses that were conducted on the Italian Student Movement of the 1960s and 1970s in the previous chapter. After a brief reconstruction of the debate on memory in the Spanish context (Sects. 1, 2, and 3), a qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles regarding two very significant events of the Student protests of the 1960s and 1970s in Spain is conducted in Sects. 4 and 5. The analysis shows the development over time of the media representations of the Student struggles of previous decades, reconstructing the images of the Spanish Student Movement of the 1960s and 1970s that are predominant in the mass media forum of the public sphere as a repository of memory. These media representations of the past will then be compared, in Chap. 7, with the representations of the same past emerging from the interview with contemporary Spanish activists: identifying analogies and differences between these two sources, as in the Italian case, will allow us to empirically assess the role of the different repository of memories (mass media and Movement culture) and the ways in which activists draw on them.
Alessandro Drago - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Strikes, general assemblies and institutional insurgency: explaining the persistence of the Québec Student Movement
Social Movement Studies, 2020Co-Authors: Alessandro DragoAbstract:Why have Quebec Student organizations resisted oligarchization, conservativism, complacency and demobilization since the late 1960’s? The Quebec Student Movement has remained both radical and highl...
