Protests and Support for Democracy: Theory and Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring

• In Event: Legislatures, Patronage, and Political Attitudes in Competitive Authoritarian Polities in the MENA

Brief Overview

I propose a contingent theory of protests' effects, showing that they are conditional on citizens' prior perceptions towards democracy before transition.The empirical evidence is from Egypt's Arab Spring and DID design combining multiple survey data.

Author

• Wenting Xu, University of Chicago