Rethinking revolutions: Integrating origins, processes, and outcomes

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-32

  Goldstone, Jack A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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POPULAR PROTEST; SOCIAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 64149105919     PISSN: 1089201X     EISSN: 1548226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/1089201X-2008-040     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979);
2. Jack A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991);
3. Goldstone, "Toward a Fourth Generation of Revolutionary Theory," Annual Review of Political Science 4 (2001): 139-87;
4. Misagh Parsa, States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000);
5. Jeff Goodwin, No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001);
6. John Foran, Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
7. Goodwin, No Other Way Out, chap. 2.
8. See especially Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions;
9. Skocpol, Social Revolutions in the Modern World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994);
10. and Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion.
11. Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchick, "International Diffusion and Postcommunist Electoral Revolutions," Communist and Postcommunist Studies 39 (2006): 283-304;
12. Michael McFaul, "Transitions from Postcommunism," Journal of Democracy 16, no. 3 (2005): 5-19.
13. One could add to this list the Iranian constitutional revolution of 1905, the electoral rejection of the Pinochet regime in Chile in 1988, the protests that brought down the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia in 1998, and the negotiated ending of the apartheid regime in South Africa in 1994. The Mosaddeq revolution in Iran in 1953 and the Allende victory in Chile in 1973 could also have become early color revolutions, but they were rapidly overturned by U.S.-supported military coups.
14. Valerie Bunce, Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 152.
15. On refolutions, see Timothy Garton Ash, The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (Cambridge, UK: Granta, 1989).
16. On electoral revolutions, see Bunce and Wolchick, "International Diffusion."
17. Parsa, States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions; Goldstone, "Toward a Fourth Generation";
18. Foran, Taking Power.
19. Lyford Edwards, The Natural History of Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970);
20. Crane Brinton, Anatomy of Revolution (New York: Vintage, 1965).
21. Misagh Parsa, "Theories of Collective Actions and the Iranian Revolution," Sociological Forum 3 (1988): 44-71;
22. Goodwin, No Other Way Out.
23. QuoteWorld.org, www.quoteworld.org/quotes/4954 (accessed 5 September 2008).
24. Parsa, States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions.
25. Brinton, Anatomy of Revolution.
26. Seymour Martin Lipset, The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective (New York: Basic Books, 1963), 92.
27. Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions;
28. Goodwin, No Other Way Out.
29. Parsa, States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions. Parsa makes this point clearly with regard to the 1986 revolution in the Philippines.
30. Bunce and Wolchick, "International Diffusion."
31. Jillian Schwedler, Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Schwedler has shown the dominance of moderate politics in Middle Eastern states where moderates are forced to compete openly with moderate parties for support.