In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes.

ABSTRACT: Occupying public spaces can be an effective tactic for conveying a semantic message of protest and gaining wider support; however, it may also severely disrupt the everyday lives of non-participants and causes a backfire. Therefore, it remains unclear whether and how the occupy movements have shifted political attitudes among the general public. Bringing a social-spatial perspective to the case of the Occupy Central Movement (OCM) in Hong Kong, this study investigates how the attitudinal impact of occupation has varied according to people's spatial proximity to the protest sites. Using two waves of individual-level panel data collected right before and after the OCM and detailed geo-information on the respondents' home addresses and the occupied areas, we apply a difference-in-differences

SUBMITTER: Xu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10107315 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature