Online Repression and Tactical Evasion: Evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger Protests in Egypt

Following the 2011 Arab Spring, autocrats have sought to limit citizens’ ability to publicize offline protests over social media. In this paper, we explore how users can adapt to these restrictions. To do so, we analyze 33 million tweets sent from Egypt during the “Day of Anger” protests in September 2020. We find evidence of learning and online tactical evasion in a highly repressive context. To avoid detection, opponents are more likely to issue calls for offline protests using new or dedicated accounts that contain no personal information.

Economic Lawfare: The Geopolitics of Corporate Justice

Large corporations are increasingly on trial. Over the last decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have been embroiled in legal disputes over corruption charges, fraud, environmental damage, taxation issues or sanction violations, ending in convictions or settlements of record-breaking fines, well above the billion-dollar mark. For critics of globalization, this turn towards corporate accountability is a welcome sea-change showing that multinational companies are no longer above the law, simply because they are too big, too mobile and too important for economic growth.

Trade-offs of social democratic party strategies in a pluralized issue space: a conjoint analysis

Political parties in Europe compete in a pluralized issue space. In combination with the ongoing socio-structural realignment of party electorates, this pluralization has been argued to entail several strategic trade-offs, especially for Social Democratic parties, whose electoral support has been dwindling over the past decades. In particular, Social Democratic parties may face sharp trade-offs when it comes to addressing working class vs. new middle class voters, as well as young vs. elderly voters.
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Yuna Han

Yuna Han is a Departmental Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. She is currently affiliated with University College, and previously was at St Catherine's College. Prior to Oxford, she was a Fellow in International Relations Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a research associate at the European University Institute. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford, MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and BA from Harvard University.

Mihail Chiru

Mihail Chiru is an Associate Professor in Comparative Central and Eastern European Politics, St Antony's College. He received a PhD (awarded Summa Cum Laude) in Comparative Politics from the Central European University.

Before joining DPIR, Mihail was a Departmental Lecturer in East European Politics at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA). He previously taught at the University of Southampton and at the Central European University and conducted postdoctoral work at UCLouvain (Belgium) and Median Research Centre (Romania).

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