What best explains successful protest cascades? ICTs and the fuzzy causes of the Arab Spring

International Studies Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-66

  Hussain, Muzammil M ^a   Howard, Philip N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; DEMOCRATIZATION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; POLITICAL CHANGE; POPULAR PROTEST; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK;

MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 84876154839     PISSN: 15219488     EISSN: 14682486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/misr.12020     Document Type: Article

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