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: A13 D61 D70 D72 D74 H11 H23 H41 J51 P16 P36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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