A Conflict Model for Strategists and Managers

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Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century

Departing from the “Great Revolutions” tradition, Jack A. Goldstone, Ted Robert Gurr, and Farrokh Moshiri have drawn together a variety of area experts to examine contemporary revolutionary crises in light of recent social and political developments. The result is a wide-ranging compendium of cases placed in current theoretical perspective.The book opens with a survey of theories of revolutionary conflict, ranging from Marx and Engels to Skocpol and Tilly. Next, Goldstone lays out an analytical framework for understanding contemporary revolutions that traces a sequence from processes of state breakdown and the ensuing struggle for power to the process of state reconstruction. The framework is then used to examine ten very different revolutionary crises—in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iran, Poland, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Cambodia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza. Factors implicit in state breakdown and reconstruction such as political and fiscal crisis, elite divisions, and mass mobilization are highlighted in the analyses of the individual crises.The concluding chapter, coauthored by Gurr and Goldstone, compares the origins, dynamics, and outcomes of the revolutions in the case studies and applies the findings to ongoing and prospective cases. Taken together, the contributors’ and editors’ work shows that the end of the cold war does not signal the end of revolution and that with proper attention to certain conditions and factors, revolutionary “surprises’’—such as those in Eastern Europe—need not catch us off guard in the years ahead.THIS PARAGRAPH FOR TEXT PROMOTION ONLYAppropriate for upper division courses in revolutions and social movements, Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century is fully documented, illustrated with maps, figures, and comparative tables, and bolstered by chronologies to accompany each country-specific chapter

Polity II, political structures and regime change, 1800-1986 ICPSR 9263

Analysis of regimes' structural characteristics, institutional changes, and the directionality of changes on underlying dimensions of democracy, autocracy, and power concentrations Nine groups of variables are included in the Polity II data set: spatial-temporal domain / basic authority characteristics of politics / identification of major, abrupt polity change / events immediately preceding-causing polity termination / events signifying polity formation / indicators of democracy, autocracy and state power / institutional adaptability and persistence / central government expenditures, revenues and national accounts / Banks' polity characteristics

Polity II, political structures and regime change, 1800-1986 ICPSR 9263

Analysis of regimes' structural characteristics, institutional changes, and the directionality of changes on underlying dimensions of democracy, autocracy, and power concentrations Nine groups of variables are included in the Polity II data set: spatial-temporal domain / basic authority characteristics of politics / identification of major, abrupt polity change / events immediately preceding-causing polity termination / events signifying polity formation / indicators of democracy, autocracy and state power / institutional adaptability and persistence / central government expenditures, revenues and national accounts / Banks' polity characteristics

Are minorities free riders? Applying the social resistance framework to public goods production in Central‐Eastern Europe

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