The political logic of protest repression in China

Autor(en)

Christian Göbel

Abstrakt

Why do China's authorities repress some protests, but not others? By how much do crowd size, violent tactics and protest location increase the likelihood of repression? Based on a newly available dataset of more than 70,000 protest events collected from social media, this article tests three competing explanations of protest repression in China. It finds that repression is closely correlated both with the cost of concessions for local governments and protest intensity. A small-scale and peaceful labor protest in an urban locality very seldom encounters repression, but rural riots against land grabs, evictions or environmental pollution are nearly certain to experience state-sanctioned violence or arrests even if the number of participants is low.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften

Journal

Journal of Contemporary China

Band

30

Seiten

169-185

Anzahl der Seiten

17

ISSN

1067-0564

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2020.1790897

Publikationsdatum

03-2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

506008 Konfliktforschung

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Geography, Planning and Development, Development, Political Science and International Relations

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/afed774a-33b2-410a-9f1e-101048d6c358