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Buoyed by this success, protests against corruption had erupted throughout the country, and by the end of February they'd grown so large that they forced the prime minister, an alleged former amphetamine smuggler named Boiko Borisov, to also resign.
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In sum, resource mobilization and protest tactics cannot adequately explain protest success; protest frames have a moderate explanatory power for protest success, while political opportunities have fairly strong explanatory power.
In fact, we do not attempt to reveal the conditions for all successful protests but merely aim to explain the success of socially influential protests.
Finally, this study aims to explore what factors are conducive to successful protests by systematically comparing cases, which means that it has not scrutinized the dynamic mechanisms through which these factors lead to the success of protests by in-depth analysis of individual cases.
Yu (2012) points out that the relationship between protesters and authorities is key to the success of protests; meanwhile, she stresses the importance of media reports and political opportunities.
In sum, the central government's "multiple-channelled intervention" is key to the success of protests in China.
In this light, the question of the present study is: in China, what are the factors that shape the success of protests?1 Here success refers to achieving protestors' intended goals.
Although existing studies have pointed out that political opportunities play a significant role in the success of protests in China (e.g. Cai 2010), they mainly emphasize the importance of direct intervention from higher-level governments and have not differentiated modes of government intervention nor elaborated how different modes of intervention shape protest success.
The results show that resource mobilization and protest tactics cannot adequately explain success, whereas protest frames and political opportunities can to some extent explain success.
A key factor in the success of protest movements in Tunisia and Egypt was the reluctance of those countries' armies to turn their guns on civilians.
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