Boycotts

thumb|right|upright=1.1|Protesters advocating boycott of KFC due to [[animal welfare concerns]]

practice of publicly shaming, rejecting, and ceasing to provide support to people perceived as problematic

protest campaign against racial segregation on buses in Montgomery, Alabama

British land agent (1832–1897)

Muslim revolt in Iran against an 1890 tobacco concession granted to Great Britain

mass abstention by a group of voters during an election

policy of abstention from the polls in parliamentary elections

2009 United Nations World Conference Against Racism

Abstentionism is the political practice of standing for election to a deliberative assembly while refusing to take up any seats won or otherwise participate in the assembly's business. Abstentionism differs from an election boycott in that abstentionists participate in the election itself. Abstentionism has been used by Irish republican political movements in the United Kingdom and Ireland since the early 19th century. It was also used by Hungarian and Czech nationalists in the Austrian Imperial Council in the 1860s.

An anti-boycott, counter-boycott, or buycott is the excess buying of a particular brand or product in an attempt to counter a boycott of the same brand or product. Anti-boycott measures could also be in the form of laws and regulations adopted by a state to prohibit the act of boycott among its citizens.

1902 New York City protest

1950 diplomatic act