Abstract This research note investigates how discriminatory experiences shape political protest behaviour among lower social class citizens. While prior studies show that discrimination mobilises ethnic and racial minorities toward protest, the political consequences of class‐based discrimination remain underexplored. Drawing on insights from recent work distinguishing context‐specific forms of discrimination, we examine how institutional and everyday discrimination relate to three protest activities: attending demonstrations, signing citizens' initiatives, and boycotting products. Using data from the 2021 recruitment wave of the DeZIM.panel, a register‐based random sample of adults in Germany, we apply two alternative operationalisations of the lower social class. The findings show that everyday discrimination significantly increases protest participation among lower‐status citizens, raising the probability of engagement by roughly 9 to 18 percentage points, whereas institutional discrimination plays a limited role. These results extend minority‐focused research to social class and underscore the political relevance of everyday discriminatory experiences.
Garcia et al. (Wed,) studied this question.