Sökning: "Mass Protests"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 20 uppsatser innehållade orden Mass Protests.
1. IS THE SEED OF REVOLUTION REPRESSION? A quantitative study of the relationship between government repression and anti-government mass mobilization
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : Throughout history, authoritarian regimes have used repression to avoid the opposition to flourish and to retain power. However, in the case of the protests for Mahsa Amini against the regime in Iran, it has been demonstrated that government repression instead, can be positively associated with anti-government mass mobilization. LÄS MER
2. Arabisk vår, men kom demokratin in i värmen?
L2-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : The Arab Spring broke out in the MENA-region in 2011 in the guise of a series of mass protests demanding political and regime change. The rebellion was triggered by a long period of autocratic rule which for the region’s citizens had meant social injustice, economic complications, oppression and lack of political and human rights. LÄS MER
3. Hawkes Processes on Socialand Mass Media: : A Causal Study of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement inthe Summer of 2020
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statistik, AI och data scienceSammanfattning : In this work we study interactions in social media and the reports in mass media during the Black LivesMatter (BLM) protests following the death of George Floyd. We implement open-source pipelines to process the data at scale and employ the self-exciting counting process known as Hawkes process to address our main question: is there a causal relation between interactions in social media and reports of street protests in mass media? Specifically, we use distributed label propagation to identify such interactions in Twitter, that supported the BLM movement, and compared the timing of these interaction to those of news reports of street protests mentioning George Floyd, via the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project. LÄS MER
4. An Attempt to Modernise Indian Agriculture
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenSammanfattning : The Indian agriculture sector plays a vital role in the country's economy and employs a significant number of individuals. The sector's performance has been plummeting in recent years, and this decrease in growth can be attributed to factors such as the provisions provided to farmers by the government. LÄS MER
5. The EU’s democracy assistance efforts in Belarus - An analysis of the character of EU democracy assistance and involvement in the mass protests of 2020-2021 in Belarus
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : During recent events, Belarus has come under the light due to the falsified re-election of Lukashenko in 2020. Mass protests arose, and the civil society’s demand for democracy became clear. LÄS MER
