Protest Neophytes and Self-Mobilization: The Anti-Extradition Movement of Hongkongers against China

• In Event: JSS 13
  In JSS Session: Protest, Legitimacy, Linkages

Brief Overview

This paper attempts to build an alternative model than the classical top down model to argue that the executive-dominative institution and atom-personal network building have triggered the self-mobilisation of prospective participants to turn out.

Author

• Ngai-chiu Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong