Torcal, MarianoRodon i Casarramona, AntoniHierro, María José2024-09-132024-09-132016Torcal 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: 10.1080/01402382.2015.10685250140-2382http://hdl.handle.net/10230/61086Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.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.application/pdfeng© 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.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2015.1068525IdeologyProtestValuesMobilisationCabinet ideologyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess