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Word on the street: the persistence of leftist-dominated protest in Europe

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dc.contributor.author Torcal, Mariano
dc.contributor.author Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni
dc.contributor.author Hierro, María José
dc.date.accessioned 2024-09-13T11:23:04Z
dc.date.available 2024-09-13T11:23:04Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation Torcal M, Rodon T, Hierro MJ. Word on the street: the persistence of leftist-dominated protest in Europe. West Eur Polit. 2026;39(2):326-50. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2015.1068525
dc.identifier.issn 0140-2382
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/61086
dc.description Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.
dc.description.abstract Classic studies of protest politics have traditionally defended the dominant left-wing orientation of protesters. However, some recent research has highlighted the general spread of protest by the increasing participation of right-wing individuals. Has this process meant an ‘ideological normalisation’ of protesters? The present article tackles this question by examining competing hypotheses regarding the relationship between ideology and political protest. Through a hierarchical multilevel design, the article tests whether left-wing (or right-wing) supporters are more likely to stay at home when left-wing (right-wing) parties are in power and whether they intensify their protest activities when they are more distant from the government’s ideological position. The article shows that left-wing individuals protest more under right-wing governments than under left-wing governments and yet, they are the group which protest the most also under left-wing governments. Both party mobilisation and values appear to be behind these individuals' greater propensity to participate regardless of the governments' ideological orientation.
dc.description.sponsorship Part of this work has been supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación under the project CSO2013-47071-R, title ‘Crisis y retos en la ciudadanía en España: actitudes y comportamiento de los españoles ante la crisis económica y de representación política’.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
dc.relation.ispartof West European Politics. 2026;39(2):326-50
dc.relation.isreferencedby http:/dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1568742.v1
dc.rights © This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in West European Politics on 2015 Aug 15, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01402382.2015.1068525.
dc.title Word on the street: the persistence of leftist-dominated protest in Europe
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2015.1068525
dc.subject.keyword Ideology
dc.subject.keyword Protest
dc.subject.keyword Values
dc.subject.keyword Mobilisation
dc.subject.keyword Cabinet ideology
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2013-47071-R
dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

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