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The mobilization dropout race : interpersonal networks and motivations predicting differential recruitment in a national climate change demonstration
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Author
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Abstract
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| The question of why some people participate in collective action, while most of them do not, has puzzled social movement scholars for decades, continuing to generate a burgeoning literature on what has been termed "differential recruitment." Studies investigating protest participation, however, rarely compare actual participants with nonparticipants. The most important reason is a methodological one: it is difficult to organize a pre-and post-design that allows for disentangling the whole mobilization process leading towards a protest demonstration. In this article, I present data about 2,100 potential and actual participants in a national climate change demonstration in Belgium. Relying on this unique dataset, I present a comprehensive model including interpersonal networks and issue-related motivations to predict and explain participation and nonparticipation in a specific protest demonstration. Conceiving protest mobilization as a multistage process, I indicate how networks and motivations each have a distinct role in different stages of the mobilization process. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Mobilization. - San Diego, Calif., 1996, currens
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Publication
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San Diego, Calif.
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2017
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ISSN
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1086-671X
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1938-1514
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DOI
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10.17813/1086-671X-20-3-311
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Volume/pages
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22
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(2017)
, p. 311-329
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ISI
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000418373100003
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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