Social movement research indicates that mobilization can effect change in political attitudes, yet few works have systematically tested the effect of protests on public opinion. This article uses survey and protest event data to assess the spatial and temporal effect of mobilizations on political attitudes Chile. It combines the 2008, 2010, and 2012 LAPOP surveys and a dataset of college student protest events, mapping respondents and protests at the municipal level using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Using regression analyses, it finds that proximity to college student protests has a significant effect on various political attitudes. The effect, however, tends to be substantively larger on “weak” attitudes and smaller on “strong” ones. The results highlight the importance of mobilizations in shaping individual political attitudes and the role that social movements play in the policy-making process.

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青年的亲近：抗议活动对智利政治态度的时空影响

社会运动研究表明，动员可以影响政治态度的改变，但很少有作品系统地测试抗议活动对公众舆论的影响。本文使用调查和抗议事件数据来评估动员对智利政治态度的时空影响。它结合了 2008 年、2010 年和 2012 年的 LAPOP 调查和大学生抗议活动数据集，使用地理信息系统 (GIS) 在市政层面绘制受访者和抗议活动的地图。使用回归分析，它发现接近大学生抗议活动对各种政治态度有显着影响。然而，对“弱”态度的影响往往更大，而对“强”态度的影响则更小。