Geographical Diffusion of Protests: Evidence from China

• In Event: Political Networks East & West: Asia and the Americas

Brief Overview

Exploiting a unique dataset of collective actions occurred in China between 2014 and 2015, we find that the influence of one protest on future ones can last for around a week in the same location, and for four days in the neighboring regions

Authors

• Ye Wang, New York University

• Han Zhang, Princeton University

• Mengyang Zhao, University of Pennsylvania