MANUEL VOGT
Associate professor, University College London
Non-violent mobilization
This strand of research focuses on non-violent political mobilization, in particular. I am interested in how political organizations construct a collective voice for marginalized social groups and the impact of such non-violent social mobilization.
Bornschier, Simon and Manuel Vogt. 2024. "The Politics of Extractivism: Mining, Institutional Responsiveness, and Social Resistance." World Development 176:106493. (Link)
Funded by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) on “Mining and Social Protest in Latin America” and drawing on novel subnational data on mining activities and anti-mining protests in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador, this article analyzes the impact of non-violent social mobilisation in the particular context of anti-mining resistance. Distinguishing between protest onset and continuation, our study reveals how decentralisation helps regional governments respond to local grievances signalled by social protest, thus reducing protest duration. This finding points to possible government strategies to balance the economic benefits and social costs of natural resource exploitation.
Vogt, Manuel. 2016. "A New Dawn? Indigenous Movements and Ethnic Inclusion in Latin America." International Studies Quarterly 60(4):790-801. (Link)
Based on the first cross-sectional dataset on ethnic civil society organizations in Latin America, covering the time period from 1946 to 2009, my article on indigenous movements in Latin America examines how such movements have contributed to the political inclusion of historically marginalized indigenous groups. My statistical analysis finds that indigenous groups with well-organized movements are more likely to achieve inclusion in executive positions of state power. The level of democratic freedom in a country greatly conditions this effect, while movement-internal factionalism undermines the political effectiveness of indigenous mobilization. I illuminate the causal mechanisms underlying these results in a case study of the rise and decline of indigenous mobilization in Ecuador.
Vogt, Manuel. 2015. "The Disarticulated Movement: Barriers to Maya Mobilization in Post-Conflict Guatemala." Latin American Politics and Society 57(1):29-50. (Link)
I analyze he mechanisms through which ethnic movements achieve (or fail) to construct strong collective voices capable of challenging state governments in more detail in my article on the "disarticulated" Maya movement in Guatemala. In this case study, I show how organizational sectorization, the lack of elite consensus on key substantive issues, and unclear alliance strategies compromise the effectiveness of horizontal voice among Maya organizations in Guatemala, preventing the emergence of a strong vertical voice.