| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26757 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26757 |
| Social Groups and the Effectiveness of Protests | |
| Marco Battaglini; Rebecca B. Morton; Eleonora Patacchini | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-02-17 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We present an informational theory of public protests, according to which public protests allow citizens to aggregate privately dispersed information and signal it to the policy maker. The model predicts that information sharing of signals within social groups can facilitate information aggregation when the social groups are sufficiently large even when it is not predicted with individual signals. We use experiments in the laboratory and on Amazon Mechanical Turk to test these predictions. We find that information sharing in social groups significantly affects citizens' protest decisions and as a consequence mitigates the effects of high conflict, leading to greater efficiency in policy makers' choices. Our experiments highlight that social media can play an important role in protests beyond simply a way in which citizens can coordinate their actions; and indeed that the information aggregation and the coordination motives behind public protests are intimately connected and cannot be conceptually separated. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26757 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584430 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marco Battaglini,Rebecca B. Morton,Eleonora Patacchini. Social Groups and the Effectiveness of Protests. 2020. |
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| w26757.pdf（964KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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