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Replication data for "Moral logics of support for nonviolent resistance: Evidence from a cross-national survey experiment"

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Title Replication data for "Moral logics of support for nonviolent resistance: Evidence from a cross-national survey experiment"
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TIBVQ0
 
Creator Dahlum, Sirianne
Wig, Tore
Pinckney, Jonathan
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description An emerging consensus holds that nonviolent resistance campaigns are more successful than violent campaigns, partly because they attract more participants. Yet we lack an understanding of whether and why nonviolent tactics attracts support. We propose two motivational logics that can explain support for non-violence: An instrumentalist logic, whereby nonviolent resistance is preferred based on cost-benefit considerations, and an intrinsic logic where nonviolent resistance is preferred because of perceived inherent moral worth. To investigate the motivational pull of these two logics, we conduct a pre-registered survey experiment among more than 5000 respondents across 33 countries in fall 2019. We find that nonviolent tactics strongly increase movement support relative to violent tactics, and that the preference for nonviolence is primarily driven by intrinsic commitments to the moral worth of nonviolent resistance, rather than instrumental considerations.
 
Subject Social Sciences
protest, non-violent resistance, conflict
 
Contributor Wig, Tore