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Lowrance, Sherry. "Mobilization and Ethnic Protest: The Case of Israel's Arab Minority" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA, Mar 22, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p100759_index.html>

Lowrance, S. R. , 2006-03-22 "Mobilization and Ethnic Protest: The Case of Israel's Arab Minority" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p100759_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: The importance of recruitment efforts in facilitating political participation has been well-documented, particularly in the American context (Rosenstone and Hansen 1993; Verba, Schlozman, and Brady 1995). People are more likely to take the time and effort to participate in politics if they are personally asked to do so. However, these mobilization efforts may be particularly crucial for marginalized minorities, who may be less likely to participate in the absence of outside encouragement. Furthermore, in the case of protest, a high-initiative and, in some contexts, high-risk activity, mobilization may play an important role in assisting participation. Not all mobilization efforts are likely to have equal effects; trusted individuals and one?s identity may have important roles to play in protest mobilization.The case of Israel provides an appealing case-study for investigating protest activity. Israel?s protest rate is relatively high by cross-national standards (Wolfsfeld 1988; Lehman-Wilzig 1990), thus allowing sufficient variation for use as a dependent variable. Furthermore, the existence of a marginalized non-Jewish minority ? Israeli Arabs ? for whom protest activity risks injury, arrest, or even death, allows for the investigation of the role of mobilization in concert with grievance, identity, and demographics/resources in a population for whom protest activity presents potential high costs. The data for my analysis come from a unique survey which I designed and commissioned upon receiving funding from a number of sources. It was conducted by professional research organizations in Israel in 2001. This data set includes measures of political participation, identity, various attitudes, and demographics as well as a distinctive set of questions regarding the respondent?s efforts to recruit others and his/her experiences as an object of recruitment. I have also secured funding to travel to Israel in the summer of 2005 to collect qualitative data on mobilization efforts. I will primarily be conducting interviewsamong Israeli Arab elites about the meaning of identities and efforts to mobilize them in Israel. My analysis will focus on investigating the determinants of protest participation, with particular focus on the role of mobilization. Preliminary analyses indicate that mobilization as a stand-alone variable has a strong and significant effect on protest participation, particularly among Israeli Arabs. However, it is likely that mobilization by trusted individuals is a particularly powerful inducer of protest among Israeli Arabs; thus the interaction between the mobilization variable and the indicated ?mobilizer? will be investigated. Furthermore, it may be the case that certain state-centered identities (?Israeli? or ?Israeli Arab? for the non-Jewish Arab population) may be unusually resistant to recruitment efforts at protest activity. This would be consistent with my previous finding that individuals with these sorts of identities are less likely to engage in protest activity. I also intend to investigate mobilization as a dependent variable, thus providing insight into the factors that render one susceptible to recruitment efforts.This paper will shed light on the factors that influence one?s decision to participate in politics in a system-challenging manner. In particular, the propensity of marginalized minorities to mobilize and be mobilized for high-risk activity targeting the legitimacy of the political system will highlight the importance of ethnic and civic identities for ethnic stability. My analysis will thus broadly impact the ethnic conflict and political participation literatures.Lehman-Wilzig, Sam. 1990. Stiff-Necked People, Bottle-Necked System: The Evolution and Roots of Israeli Public Protest, 1949-1986. Edited by D. J. Elazar and S. M. Cohen, Jewish Political and Social Studies. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.Rosenstone, Steven J., and John Mark Hansen. 1993. Mobilization, Participation, and Democracy in America, New Topics in Politics. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company.Verba, Sidney, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Henry E. Brady. 1995. Voice and Equality: Civic voluntarism in American Politics. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press.Wolfsfeld, Gadi. 1988. The Politics of Provocation: Participation and Protest in Israel. Edited by R. Stone, SUNY Series in Israeli Studies. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

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