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100			_aTrasberg, Mart _951932
245			_aInformal institutions and community development protests: Evidence from sub-municipal localities in Mexico
260			_aComparative Politics
300			_a54(3), Apr, 2023: p.401-424
520			_aWhy are citizens in some communities able to protest to bring attention to their grievances, while not in others? While a long literature has contended that informal civil society institutions facilitate contentious collective action, not all organizations do so, and some might even discourage it. I argue in this article that inclusive institutions— open to everyone in a community—facilitate protests, while non-inclusive institutions uniting some particularistic sub-groups within communities hinder them. The former provide communities with broad social networks fostering communal unity, while the latter erode communal unity through provoking internal conflicts. I provide evidence for this theory in the sub-municipal context of Mexico, using statistical analysis of data from an original survey of sub-municipal community presidents and qualitative fieldwork evidence from Puebla and Tlaxcala.- Reproduced https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/cuny/cp/2023/00000055/00000003/art00003
773			_aComparative Politics
906			_aSOCIAL PROTESTS
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