It’s the weather, stupid! Individual participation in collective May Day demonstrations

Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard ()

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Abstract: We investigate the possible explanations of variations in aggregate levels of participation in large-scale political demonstrations. A simple public choice inspired model is applied to data derived from the annual May Day demonstrations of the Danish labour movement and socialist parties taking place in Copenhagen in the period 1980-2009. The most important explanatory variables are variations in the weather conditions. Political and socio-economic conditions exhibit few or no robust effects.

Keywords: Collective action; demonstrations; free-riding; public choice; rationality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P36 H41 H23 P16 D70 A13 H11 J51 D74 D72 D61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2010
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