Throttling Dissent: How the Timing of Internet Interference Shapes Collective Action

• In Event: Emerging Trends and Challenges

Brief Overview

Do autocrats cut connectivity before mobilization or after turnout? Using a 2022–2025 country-day panel on planned and unplanned protests, event-time models map timing and severity, and hazard tests gauge effects on protests.

Authors

• Gregory Nelson, University of South Carolina

• Matthew Charles Wilson, University of South Carolina