Bottom-Up and Top-Down: Explaining Pro-Government Mobilization in Autocracies

• In Event: Mobilization in Autocracies: Causes, Mechanisms, and Regime Reactions

Brief Overview

This article finds evidence for the role of elites in facilitating pro-regime mass action in autocracies. But in the aftermath of a trigger, the likelihood of pro-government mass action is highest when the state has little control over civil society.

Authors

• Sooyeon Kang, The Ohio State University

• Marina G. Petrova, Bocconi University