Technology and Collective Action: The Effect of Cell Phone Coverage on Political Violence in Africa

Pierskalla, Jan; M Hollenbach, Florian

doi:10.1017/s0003055413000075

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Technology and Collective Action: The Effect of Cell Phone Coverage on Political Violence in Africa

Published in American Political Science Review • Mar 27, 2013

Authors:

Jan Pierskalla

Florian M Hollenbach

Abstract

The spread of cell phone technology across Africa has transforming effects on the economic and political sphere of the continent. In this paper, we investigate the impact of cell phone technology on violent collective action. We contend that the availability of cell phones as a communication technol...

Subject

Phone

Collective action

Robustness (evolution)

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