Publication: Voicing Outrage Unevenly: Democratic Dissatisfaction, Nonparticipation, and Participation Frequency in the 15-M Campaign
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2017-06-01
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University of North Carolina
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This article explores frequencies of participation and nonparticipation in the 15-M protest
campaign in Spain. Given the nature of this campaign, we focus on democratic dissatisfaction.
Our findings suggest that, relative to nonparticipants, democratic dissatisfaction is significantly
associated with multiple-time participation, but not with one-time participation. In
other words, those who participated only once are not substantially more dissatisfied than
those who did not participate. This is remarkable because the “indignados” label and the
slogan “Real Democracy Now!” suggest that democratic discontent is a central factor uniting
15-M challengers. Relying on a general survey with questions on different frequencies of participation
in the 15-M campaign and on qualitative evidence from two separate rounds of
interviewing, we show that not all those who participated, when compared to nonparticipants,
were in fact that outraged.
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Portos, M. , Masullo, J. (2017). Voicing outrage unevenly: Democratic dissatisfaction, nonparticipation, and participation frequency in the 15-M campaign. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 22 (2), pp. 201-222.