Religion and Political Protest: A Cross-Country Analysis
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Arikan, Gizem and Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom, Religion and Political Protest: A Cross-Country Analysis, Comparative Political Studies, 52, 2, 2019, 246 - 276Download Item:
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Abstract:
Religion’s effect on individual tendency to engage in political protest is influenced both by the resources available to citizens at the individual level and opportunities provided to religious groups and organizations at the country level. Combining data from last two waves of the World Values Surveys with aggregate data on religious regulation, we show that private religious beliefs reduce an individual’s protest potential while involvement in religious social networks fosters it. At the country level, we find that government regulation of religion decreases individual tendency to protest, and has an especially detrimental effect on the likelihood of religious minorities joining peaceful protest activities. These findings are in line with opportunity structure theories that stress the importance of system openness for fostering political protest.
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Author: Arikan, Gizem
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Comparative Political Studies52
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Religiosity, Political participation, Political protest, Religious regulation, Minority discrimination, Political psychologySubject (TCD):
Inclusive Society , Political Behaviour , Political Participation , Political Psychology , Religion in pluralist democracies , Religious PluralismDOI:
https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414018774351Source URI:
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