dc.contributor |
Háskóli Íslands |
dc.contributor |
University of Iceland |
dc.contributor.author |
Bernburg, Jon |
dc.date.accessioned |
2022-11-28T10:43:31Z |
dc.date.available |
2022-11-28T10:43:31Z |
dc.date.issued |
2021-10-21 |
dc.identifier.issn |
0266-7215 |
dc.identifier.issn |
1468-2672 (eISSN) |
dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/3665 |
dc.description.abstract |
Social theory implies that a rise in the expectation that many will participate in collective action can make participation in the action widely rational, giving rise to a ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’. I address this classic, yet understudied, proposition by surveying participation in a demonstration that the ‘Panama Papers Leak’ triggered in Iceland in 2016. The demonstration was preceded by a sudden rise of large-turnout expectations, and attracted one-fifth of an urban population, allowing me to obtain event-specific, population-representative survey measures of the focal constructs (N = 821). The findings support hypotheses about the role of large-turnout expectations in collective action. They confirm that protest support (i.e. the value placed in the goal of the collective action) both raises large-turnout expectations and moderates their effects on protest participation. In fact, large-turnout expectations were associated with participation only if individuals supported the protest. Also, the findings imply that large-protest expectations trigger interpersonal relational dynamics that further motivate participation. The study thus supports and yet qualifies the role of the self-fulfilling prophecy in collective action. |
dc.format.extent |
304-320 |
dc.language.iso |
en |
dc.publisher |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
European Sociological Review; |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.subject |
Mótmælaaðgerðir |
dc.subject |
Virkni |
dc.subject |
Væntingar |
dc.subject |
Protests |
dc.subject |
Panama papers |
dc.subject |
Expectations |
dc.subject |
Self-fullfilling prophecy |
dc.title |
Collective Action and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Case of the Panama Papers Protest in Iceland |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
dc.description.version |
Pre-print (óritrýnt handrit) |
dc.identifier.journal |
European Sociological Review |
dc.contributor.department |
Félagsfræði-, mannfræði- og þjóðfræðideild (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.department |
Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics (UI) |
dc.contributor.school |
Félagsvísindasvið (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.school |
School of Social Sciences (UI) |