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Social Embeddedness and Protest Avoidance: Evidence from China

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  • Meixi Zhuang
  • Zhengxu Wang
  • Xiaoyuan Li

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Social capital is generally believed to facilitate protest mobilization. We examine, however, whether and how it might reduce an individual’s tendency to join a protest. Analyzing survey data of a migrant population in Beijing, China’s capital, we find that social capital operating as better embeddedness in local social networks lowers the likelihood of protest participation. We reason that, structurally, embeddedness in local networks provides access to support and assistance, reducing the attractiveness of disruptive means of problem-solving. Psychologically, such embeddedness mitigates the feeling of relative deprivation, reducing the possibility of such feelings accumulating and eventually translating into protesting actions. Regressions and structural equation models confirm our hypotheses, and we are also able to check the robustness of our findings with a different, much larger, cross-national dataset.

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  • Meixi Zhuang & Zhengxu Wang & Xiaoyuan Li, 2023. "Social Embeddedness and Protest Avoidance: Evidence from China," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 67(9), pages 1704-1730, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jocore:v:67:y:2023:i:9:p:1704-1730
    DOI: 10.1177/00220027221123320
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