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Protests in China: Why and Which Chinese People Go to the Street?

This research seeks to answer why and which Chinese people go to the street to protest. I argue that different sectors of Chinese society differ from each other regarding their tendencies to participate in protest. In addition to their grievances, the incentives to participate in protest and their capacities to overcome the collective action problem all needed to be taken into account. Using individual level data along with ordinary binary logistic regression and multilevel logistic regression models, I first compare the protest participation of workers and peasants and find that workers are more likely than peasants to participate in protests in the context of contemporary China. I further disaggregate the working class into four subtypes according to the ownership of the enterprises they work for. I find that workers of township and village enterprises are more likely than workers of state-owned enterprises to engage in protest activities, while there is no significant difference between the workers of domestic privately owned enterprises and the workers of foreign-owned enterprises regarding their protest participation. Finally, I find that migrant workers, which refers to peasants who move to urban areas in search of jobs, are less likely than urban registered workers to participate in protests.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc984256
Date05 1900
CreatorsChen, Yen-Hsin
ContributorsMason, T. David (Thomas David), 1950-, Paolino, Philip, 1966-, Ishiyama, John T., 1960-, Maeda, Ko
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatix, 193 pages, Text
CoverageChina, 1980~/2016~
RightsPublic, Chen, Yen-Hsin, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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