Factors Associated with the Occurrence ofProtests in Colombia, 2000-2018

This article seeks to make a comprehensive framework analysis to better understand social protest and its complexities. In this sense, in order to determine the factors as-sociated with social protest in Colombia from 2000 to 2018, a descriptive study was conducted at the municipal level by implementing count models and according to po-tential explanations based on the grievance theory, resource mobilization, and political opportunity structure. The main result is the difference between the factors associated with the occurrence and those associated with the frequency of protests. To control the effect of population size, an additional model was implemented by separating munici-palities with less and more than 1 000 000 inhabitants, which reduced the dispersion found in social protest.