2021/06/29 by Steven Brooke, Mazen Hassan · 3 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies #Law #Media Influence and Politics #Political science #Politics #Psychology #Public relations #Social psychology
paper · doi:10.1017/gov.2021.16
published in Government and Opposition 57(3), 428-445 (Cambridge University Press)
openalex publication_date 2021/06/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract The Arab Spring revived interest into how contentious mobilization diffuses across time and space. We evaluate individual-level attitudinal implications of this literature through laboratory experiments with 681 Egyptian college students. Across two separate experiments, primes based on recent protests in Tunisia, Syria and the Sudan reveal a limited ability to shift respondents’ retrospective views of the Arab Spring, the efficacy of protest to achieve political change, Egypt's perceived domestic situation vis-à-vis its neighbours and a personal willingness to assume risk in a computer game-based behavioural extension. Our findings imply the need to continue to improve theorizing and empirically testing key implications from the diffusion literature.