Social Inequality, State-centered Grievances, and Protest : Evidence from South Africa

De Juan, Alexander; Wegner, Eva

Social Inequality, State-centered Grievances, and Protest : Evidence from South Africa

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2019

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De Juan, Alexander

Wegner, Eva

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Open Access Green

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Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft

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Journal of Conflict Resolution. 2019, 63(1), pp. 31-58. ISSN 0022-0027. eISSN 1552-8766. Available under: doi: 10.1177/0022002717723136

Zusammenfassung

What role does horizontal social inequality play for political protest in middle-income countries? We argue that public social service provision is an important driver of state perceptions. When a state fails to deliver services in an equitable manner, trust in institutions erodes and protest becomes more likely. We use a mixed methods design to investigate this argument in South Africa. First, we combine police event records with census data to estimate correlations between service inequality and protests. Second, we draw on an opinion survey with 27,000 respondents to investigate the suggested mechanism linking social inequality to protest through political attitudes. Third, we focus on qualitative protest accounts in two areas identified by a matching approach to assess the plausibility of our quantitative findings. Throughout these analyses, we document a robust association between horizontal social inequality and protest.

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320 Politik

Schlagwörter

protest, basic services, South Africa, legitimacy, grievances, horizontal inequality

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DE JUAN, Alexander, Eva WEGNER, 2019. Social Inequality, State-centered Grievances, and Protest : Evidence from South Africa. In: Journal of Conflict Resolution. 2019, 63(1), pp. 31-58. ISSN 0022-0027. eISSN 1552-8766. Available under: doi: 10.1177/0022002717723136

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@article{DeJuan2019-01Socia-41819,
  year={2019},
  doi={10.1177/0022002717723136},
  title={Social Inequality, State-centered Grievances, and Protest : Evidence from South Africa},
  number={1},
  volume={63},
  issn={0022-0027},
  journal={Journal of Conflict Resolution},
  pages={31--58},
  author={De Juan, Alexander and Wegner, Eva}
}

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