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Replication Data for: Policing the Organizational Threat in Morocco: Protest and Public Violence in Liberal Autocracies

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Title Replication Data for: Policing the Organizational Threat in Morocco: Protest and Public Violence in Liberal Autocracies
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZWKCPA
 
Creator Berman, Chantal E.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description As a prominent form of state violence against civilians, protest policing represents the type of coercion that "liberal" autocrats seek to minimize. Departing from aggregate notions of "mass threat" that dominate studies of authoritarian response to contention, this paper develops an event-level model of protest policing centering the role of social movement organizations (SMOs) in shaping elite threat perceptions and, hence, the likelihood that protests will face state violence. More than public protest per se, I argue that liberal autocrats fear the rise of autonomous, national-level organizations capable of providing unregulated channels for citizen claim-making. Having forsworn the ability to control which networks become active as SMOs, liberal autocrats use protest policing to dissuade citizens from mobilizing with autonomous organizations and to protect the near-monopoly of embedded organizations over contention. I illustrate these arguments with unique protest event data from Morocco. I draw implications for the durability of liberalized regimes.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Protests
Mobilization
Middle East
Repression
Violence
 
Contributor Berman, Chantal E.
 
Source Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jan Teorell, David Altman, Michael Bernhard, M. Steven Fish, Agnes Cornell, Sirianne Dahlum, Haakon Gjerløw, Adam Glynn, Allen Hicken, Joshua Krusell, Anna Lührmann, Kyle L. Marquardt, Kelly McMann, Valeriya Mechkova, Juraj Medzihorsky, Moa Olin, Pamela Paxton, Daniel Pemstein, Josefine Pernes, Johannes von Römer, Brigitte Seim, Rachel Sigman, Jeffrey Staton, Natalia Stepanova, Aksel Sundström, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang, Tore Wig, Steven Wilson, and Daniel Ziblatt. 2018. "V-Dem Country-Year Dataset v8". Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project. The file "Country-Year: V-Dem Extended" was downloaded in CSV format. Accessed April 30, 2018. https://doi.org/10.23696/vdemcy18



Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT), 1979-2020. Version 1.0. The GDELT Event Exporter was used to download the subset of records belonging to Start Date = 01/01/2006, End Date = 05/31/2016, Event Location = Morocco, Event Code = Protest (14), in CSV format. See Appendix 3 for details on how data were cleaned and subsetted. Accessed December 6, 2017. http://analysis.gdeltproject.org/module-event-exporter.html.