From bad to worse? : How protest can foster armed conflict in autocracies

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Political Geography. Elsevier. 2023, 103, 102891. ISSN 0962-6298. eISSN 1873-5096. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102891
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Many protest movements have brought down dictatorships and paved the way for democracy. However, protests can also foster large-scale violence at the level of civil war. How can we explain the development from protest to armed conflict? In this paper, we use geographically fine-grained data to examine how collective mobilization leads to civil war violence at the local level. We argue that two mechanisms can explain this. First, in a protest escalation dynamic, confrontations between protesters and state security forces increase the willingness of protesters to ramp up the use of force. Second, in a protest capture mechanism, protests attract attention and resources from the state, thereby providing other local non-state actors with the opportunity to use violence. We test our theoretical expectations in a spatial analysis of protests and armed conflict in autocracies from 2003 to 2014. Our results show that protests increase the risk of local armed conflict when violently repressed. Further analysis reveals that the second mechanism, protest capture, accounts for the majority of escalations to armed conflict we see in our data.

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Protest, Autocracy, Armed conflict
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ISO 690RØD, Espen Geelmuyden, Nils B. WEIDMANN, 2023. From bad to worse? : How protest can foster armed conflict in autocracies. In: Political Geography. Elsevier. 2023, 103, 102891. ISSN 0962-6298. eISSN 1873-5096. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102891
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  doi={10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102891},
  title={From bad to worse? : How protest can foster armed conflict in autocracies},
  volume={103},
  issn={0962-6298},
  journal={Political Geography},
  author={Rød, Espen Geelmuyden and Weidmann, Nils B.},
  note={Article Number: 102891}
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