Los profesores Isabel Inguanzo, Araceli Mateos y Homero Gil de Zúñiga han sido premiados con el “Hahn-Sigelman prize” de la revista American Politics Research, por su artículo ‘Why Do People Engage in Unlawful Political Protest? Examining the Role of Authoritarianism in Illegal Protest Behavior.’

Committee: Jennifer Victor (Chair, George Mason University); Nadine Gibson (University of North Carolina at Wilmington); Joseph Uscinski (University of Miami).

The authors of this article address an important question in U.S. politics: What makes people engage in illegal protest? As protest activity in the U.S. and elsewhere ticks upwards, the authors of this paper discriminate illegal protest activity from legal protest and show its nuanced relationship with authoritarian values. The committee was impressed with this article because of how it engages with current literature on protest and authoritarianism to derive expectations about a non-linear relationship. The authors use a panel survey fielded in Austria with impressive response rates. Their statistical approach is both sophisticated and appropriate for their data. The study finds that individuals with extremely low levels of authoritarianism or extremely high levels of authoritarianism engaged less frequently in illegal protest than individuals who have average levels of authoritarianism. They also find that those most likely to engage in illegal protest are not ideological extremists. The article is an important advancement of our understanding of illegal protest at a time of heightened authoritarianism in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Todos los premios: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X251338249
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