Overview
Analyses popular mobilization in non-democratic settings
Focuses particular attention to the characteristics of autocracies that increase or decrease their longevity and propensity to collapse
Investigates how the features of authoritarian institutional structures can alternatively facilitate or constrain popular actors’ ability to organize sustained nationwide protest movements?
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
The turbulent year of 2011 has brought the appearance of mass popular unrest and the collapse of long lived autocratic regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and possibly Syria. The sudden and unanticipated fall of these regimes – often thought of as exemplars of authoritarian resilience - has brought much of the conventional wisdom on the durability and vulnerability of nondemocratic regimes into question. This book seeks to advance the existing literature by treating the autocratic state not as a unitary actor characterized by strength or weakness but rather as a structure or terrain that can alternatively inhibit or facilitate the appearance of national level forms of protests. In the mode of the Arab Spring, the color revolutions of the former Soviet Union, and the people power movement of the Philippines, such movements overcome the daunting impediments presented by autocrats, appeal to likeminded counterparts across society, and overwhelm the ability of regimes to maintain order. Conversely, in other settings, such as contemporary China, decentralized state structures provide an inhospitable environment for national-level protest, leading collective actors to opt for more local and parochial forms of contention. This outcome produces paradoxical situations, such as in the PRC, where protests are frequent but national-level mobilization and coordination is absent.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Authoritarian Landscapes
Book Subtitle: Popular Mobilization and the Institutional Sources of Resilience in Nondemocracies
Authors: Steve Hess
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6537-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6536-2Published: 02 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9138-6Published: 14 April 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6537-9Published: 02 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 244
Topics: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Theory