My Research

  • Mass Mobilisation and Strategies

    Why do people mobilise, and what determines whether they make use of nonviolent or violent strategies?

  • Disloyalty

    Sometimes the security forces fight tenaciously for the regime, while other times, they decide to shift sides and stand with the protesters instead. There are many ways the security forces can abandon the regime. In our research, we examine how nonviolent and violent strategies shape the (dis)loyalty decisions of the security forces.

  • Consequences

    What are the consequences of mass mobilization? Why does it sometimes lead to the establishment of new democratic regimes, while other times it leaves little mark on history, or even leads to the entrenchment of autocratic regimes?

Published Work:

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Work in progress

  • Kristin Bakke, Marianne Dahl & Kit Kit Rickard. Conflict exposure and people’s perception of protection of democratic principles: Evidence from wartime Ukraine

  • Marianne Dahl, Sirianne Dahlum, Hanne Fjelde, Haakon Gjerløw, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Carina Strøm-Sedgwick &Tore Wig. Mass Mobilization in the Modern Era: Introducing the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) dataset, 1789-2019.

  • Marianne Dahl, Sirianne Dahlum, Hanne Fjelde, Haakon Gjerløw, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Nils W. Metternich & Tore Wig. The role of collective social groups in democratization: New evidence from two centuries of mass mobilization

  • Marianne Dahl, Kristian S. Gleditsch, Gudmund Hermansen & Ida Rudolfsen. Only a moment in time? The effectiveness of nonviolent mass mobilization on transitions to democracy.

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