Democratization from Below: The Uneven Impact of Mass Mobilization Across Regimes

• In Event: Mass Mobilization and Support for Democracy

Brief Overview

This study examines how large-scale pro-democracy mobilizations affect democratic change across regimes. Using dynamic DID analysis, it finds that mobilization drives democratic gains in autocracies but yields limited effects in democracies.

Author

• Heejoo Cheon, George Mason University