Beyond the usual suspects? New participants in anti-austerity protests in Greece

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2013-09-30 DOI:10.17813/MAIQ.18.3.R3377266074133W5

Wolfgang Rudig, G. Karyotis

引用次数: 54

Abstract

In light of the emergence of mass protest against the austerity measures taken by the Greek government in 2010, we investigate whether these protests mobilized just the "usual suspects" of left-wing trade union activists, or if a new protest generation emerged. Using a general population survey carried out in December 2010, we find that almost one-third of the adult Greek population had taken part in anti-austerity protests, but less than one in five had been first-time protesters. Comparing new protesters with veteran protesters and nonprotesters, we find that new protest recruits do not fit the expected pattern in many respects. In particular, new demonstrators are less left wing than veterans and do not differ significantly from nondemonstrators, thus fitting the model of "apprentice" protesters. For the recruitment of new strikers, on the other hand, factors such as trade union membership and support for left-wing parties are more important.

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除了通常的嫌疑之外?希腊反紧缩抗议活动的新参与者

鉴于针对希腊政府2010年采取的紧缩措施的大规模抗议活动的出现，我们调查了这些抗议活动是否只是动员了左翼工会活动家的“通常嫌疑人”，或者是否出现了新的抗议一代。根据2010年12月进行的一项普通人口调查，我们发现近三分之一的希腊成年人参加了反紧缩抗议活动，但只有不到五分之一的人是第一次抗议。将新抗议者与老抗议者和非抗议者进行比较，我们发现新抗议者在许多方面都不符合预期模式。特别是，新示威者比老示威者更少左翼，与非示威者没有明显区别，因此符合“学徒”抗议者的模式。另一方面，对于招募新的罢工者来说，工会会员资格和对左翼政党的支持等因素更为重要。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.