Protest Under Uncertainty : Evidence from a Survey Experiment
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F22%3A00124986" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/22:00124986 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2021.1974068" target="_blank" >10.1080/17524032.2021.1974068</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Protest Under Uncertainty : Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Original language description
Environmental disasters generate uncertainty, which is a crucial element of post-disaster political dynamics. Does communication of uncertainty affect public willingness to participate in political activism? This article first provides a content analysis of news coverage to show that uncertainty framing is prevalent in the aftermath of environmental disasters. The article then examines the effect of such uncertainty on public willingness to protest, presenting a survey experiment of over 3,600 Americans recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk. In theory, uncertainty framing may trigger emotions like anxiety, which reduce people’s willingness to engage in protest. Since in environmental communication uncertainty frames are often used to reify the status quo, which is more easily compatible with conservative beliefs, the dampening effect should be stronger among those who are ideologically conservative. Our experiment confirms the latter expectation but does not find support for the former. These results help explain why some protest coalitions may have more breadth than others after environmental disasters.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Environmental Communication
ISSN
1752-4032
e-ISSN
1752-4040
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
163-178
UT code for WoS article
000694552800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85114635657