Why Was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring

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The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring (2017, background): “Section 5 investigates the impact of social media on protests, studies whether discontent expressed on social media has an independent effect on differential social returns, Campante and Chor (2012), Chaney (2012), Gilli (2012), and Kent and Phan (2014) discuss the origins of the Arab Spring, but do”
Democratization Under the Threat of Revolution: Evidence From the Great Reform Act of 1832 (2015, background): “Its focus on a specific democratic reform avoids many of the well-known pitfalls associated with cross-national comparisons (e.g., Acemoglu et al., 2008, Przeworski, 2009, Aidt and Jensen, 2014, Campante and Chor, 2012) but this obviously comes at the cost of external validity.”
Making sense of Arab labor markets: the enduring legacy of dualism (2014, background): “The frustration of young people who acquired schooling but were not able to reap the requisite economic benefits from it is often cited as one of the main causes of the Arab Spring uprisings (Campante and Chor 2012).”