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Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests
In this article, we study the local political mobilization effects of political protests in the context of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. We analyze monthly voter registration data from 2136 US counties across 32 states, leveraging variation in the exposure to BLM protests across counties in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9510587/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36189100 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-022-00998-y |
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description | In this article, we study the local political mobilization effects of political protests in the context of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. We analyze monthly voter registration data from 2136 US counties across 32 states, leveraging variation in the exposure to BLM protests across counties in a two-way fixed-effects framework with a matched control group. In contrast to previous studies, which reported substantial mobilization effects of local protests in other contexts, we show that voter registrations in the aggregate were insensitive to the presence of local BLM protests. We further disentangle the effects along party lines and the degree to which protests were associated with violent behaviors and find similarly insignificant effects. We present some preliminary evidence that the large scale of the protests and their extensive news coverage might have reduced the importance of experiencing a protest firsthand. |
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spelling | pubmed-95105872022-09-26 Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests Engist, Oliver Schafmeister, Felix Public Choice Article In this article, we study the local political mobilization effects of political protests in the context of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. We analyze monthly voter registration data from 2136 US counties across 32 states, leveraging variation in the exposure to BLM protests across counties in a two-way fixed-effects framework with a matched control group. In contrast to previous studies, which reported substantial mobilization effects of local protests in other contexts, we show that voter registrations in the aggregate were insensitive to the presence of local BLM protests. We further disentangle the effects along party lines and the degree to which protests were associated with violent behaviors and find similarly insignificant effects. We present some preliminary evidence that the large scale of the protests and their extensive news coverage might have reduced the importance of experiencing a protest firsthand. Springer US 2022-09-26 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9510587/ /pubmed/36189100 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-022-00998-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Engist, Oliver Schafmeister, Felix Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests |
title | Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests |
title_full | Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests |
title_fullStr | Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests |
title_full_unstemmed | Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests |
title_short | Do political protests mobilize voters? Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests |
title_sort | do political protests mobilize voters? evidence from the black lives matter protests |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9510587/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36189100 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-022-00998-y |
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