Determinants of protests: Longitudinal evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Journal: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Year: 2011

This paper is the first study that analyzes the drivers of political protest using longitudinal data from a critical revolution that changed -at least temporarily- the political landscape in a transition country. We make use of a rich dataset consisting of panel data collected before and after the so called Orange revolution in Ukraine. Our empirical approach tackles two different -and equally interesting- features of the revolution: the determinants of participation (both in the protests and co