Amalie Nilsen

From the streets to the ballots: protests, polls and polarization in Hong Kong Social movement research indicates that protests can influence voting behaviour through several informational and psychological mechanisms. Yet, we know little about the individual variation in how...

📢 New article 🌟
👤 Amalie Nilsen @amalienilsen.bsky.social
👉 From the streets to the ballots: protests, polls and polarization in Hong Kong
📗Open Access in: Democratization
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1351...

A huge thank you to the best supervisors, @haakongjerlw.bsky.social and @sirianned.bsky.social. I'm also very grateful to @mariannedahl.bsky.social, @felixhaass.bsky.social and Henrikas Bartusevičius for their valuable feedback on earlier drafts of the paper!

Studying the electoral impacts of the 2019 Anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong, I find that the protests mobilized voter turnout and opposition support among citizens who identified as “Hongkongers,” but had the opposite effect among those who identified as “Chinese.”

From the streets to the ballots: protests, polls and polarization in Hong Kong Social movement research indicates that protests can influence voting behaviour through several informational and psychological mechanisms. Yet, we know little about the individual variation in how...

I’m very happy to share that the first paper of my PhD, «From the streets to the ballots: Protests, polls and Polarization in Hong Kong» has been published online in @democratization.bsky.social

It is open access, and you can read it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....