Free link: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0017257X16000038

Yagci, Alper H. 2016. “The Great Recession, Inequality, and Occupy Protests Around the World,” Government and Opposition, published online 23 March.

The article undertakes regression analyses estimating the economic and political correlates of more than thousand Occupy protests around the world. It confirms that countries with higher income inequality and those which experienced greater economic downturn during the financial crisis saw higher numbers of protest events subsequently, controlled for factors such as regime type, government orientation, or level of corruption.