Revolution Not In My Backyard? Protest and Regime Support in an Electoral Autocracy

• In Event: Authoritarian Resilience and Imaginings of Reform in China

Brief Overview

Analyzing the election outcomes after Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, we find that protest exposure, as measured by spatial proximity to protest sites, is positively correlated with the decline of electoral support for the opposition.

Authors

• Ye Wang, New York University

• Stan Hok-wui Wong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University