Do People Protest for Democracy? Investigating the Democratic Theory of Protest Participation in Armenias Velvet Revolution of 2018
Pisareva D.
June 2023Institute for European Russian and Eurasian Studies, The George Washington University
Demokratizatsiya
2023#31Issue 3285 - 308 pp.
This article studies the role of democratic support in protest participation in non-democratic regimes. The democratic support theory suggests that strong support for democracy on the individual level makes people more likely to join democratic protests. Using Bayesian process-tracing, I apply this theory to the case of democratic mass mobilization in Armenia in 2018. Overall, the findings suggest that democratic support plays a key role in motivating people to join democratic protests in non-democracies when the risks are high and the benefits are unclear.
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