Revisiting the effect of resources mobilisation for protests

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K13605
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 06010:Politics-related
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University (2022); Waseda University (2019-2021)
• Principal Investigator: Inata Kana 東京都立大学, 法学政治学研究科, 准教授 (10822207)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 社会運動 / 資源動員 / 暴力 / 非暴力

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I conducted formal and empirical analyses investigating the effect of resources mobilisation on protest onsets and consequences. A part of the research output was published in the Conflict Management and Peace Science. This paper clarifies that the conventional wisdom that the larger a protest becomes, the more successful holds only in limited conditions and that the excessive mobilisation of resources can perversely undermine the bargaining power of protest groups. Second, my coauthor, Wakako Maekawa, and I empirically test what factors determine civil groups' choice of campaign tactics, violence or nonviolence. We presented research findings in several international conferences and submitted the draft to peer-reviewed journals.

Free Research Field

比較政治

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

「社会運動に資源を動員するほど、政府に対する脅しの信憑性は増し、政府から譲歩を得られやすくなる」という定説を理論と実証の双方から検証した。その結果、資源動員論などに基づくこの定説は、ある特定の条件下でのみ成立するものであり、暴力を伴う運動のような過度な資源動員が逆効果となることを示した。