Social Protests in Armenia: Econometric Analysis and Theoretical Interpretation

Abstract

One of the main causes of recent social protests in different countries is supposed to be the social factor. The latter includes the level of inequality and poverty in a specific state. The purpose of this research is to illustrate the picture of the generators of Armenian social movements. It aims to indicate that the uprisings are triggered by the causes other than the social ones in Armenia. For that purpose, we conduct a mixed research based on the content analysis and expert interviews. Aside from the primary data, we used secondary one on the political, social and economic factors to find out the types of relations between the protests and the independent variables through regression analysis. In all cases, the social factors registered very insignificant relations with the protests. Moreover, the latter also has no relations with the social factors but the qualitative research underlines some indirect link between them.