Principled Opposition to Violence: The Legitimacy Premium of Nonviolent Protests across Regime Types

• In Event: Social Movement, Protest and Political Violence: State Repression and its Effects

Brief Overview

Our study develops moral and rationalist logics to examine how regime type shapes views of protest violence. A UK survey experiment shows violent protests face equal backlash across regimes, offering new evidence of nonviolence’s legitimacy premium.

Authors

• Yuhan Hu, University of Oxford

• Eddy Yeung, University of Oxford