Original scientific paper
The Politics of Protest in Non-democratic Regimes
Nebojša Vladisavljević
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract
The paper explores the politics of protest in non-democratic regimes using
insights from comparative regime analysis and social movement theory. A
regime type strongly shapes factors that trigger popular mobilization, the
repertories of collective action and their implications. Protest politics may
produce a considerable political change, such as policy and personality
change in the political establishment, as well as important shifts in the
structure and operation of non-democratic regimes, even regime change.
The paper provides evidence from the late communist authoritarian Poland
and Yugoslavia, in which sustained protests contributed to the collapse of
regime and state, and the post-communist competitive authoritarian Serbia
and Ukraine, which experience repeated protest waves and were brought
down by protest politics.
Keywords
autoritarianism; competitive autoritarianism; popular protest; mobilization; Poland; Yugoslavia; Serbia; Ukraine
Hrčak ID:
145910
URI
Publication date:
5.4.2011.
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