Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 285 |
| Number of pages | 308 |
| Journal | Demokratizatsiya |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Keywords
- democratic protest
- Armenia
- democratic support
- Post-Soviet countries