From Mobilization to Revolution.
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...Building on similar efforts by other civil war researchers,3 we constructed a list of violent civil conflicts 2 There are 79 wars in their sample, but they lose about 34 due to missing values on explanatory variables, which are mainly economic....
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...There are both practical and theoretical considerations pointing the other way, however....
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...There is an additional reason why a lower per capita income should favor the technology of insurgency: (c) Recruiting young men to the life of a guerrilla is easier when the economic alternatives are worse....
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...…convergence theory (Turner and Killian, 1972), the hearts and minds approach (Leites and Wolf, 1970), and breakdown theory (Tilly et al., 1975); and the resource mobilization perspective associated with the work of McCarthy and Zald (1973, 1977), Oberschall (1973), and Tilly (1978), among others....
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...…atrophied, fallen into disuse, or have been suppressed because of the lack of an opportunity for expression due to a repressive authority structure (Tilly, 1978) or the absence of an organizational outlet (McCarthy, 1986); they may have become taken for granted or cliched (Zijderveld, 1979); they…...
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...…of protest are characterized by, among other things, "the appearance of new technologies of protest" that "spread from their point of origin to other areas and to other sectors of social protest" (Tarrow, 1983a:39), thus adding to what Tilly (1978) refers to as the "repertoire" of protest activity....
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...As Tilly (1978) and his associates have shown, collective actors come and go....
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...The establishment of public policies, or competition among bureaucrats or legislators, activates and organizes otherwise quiescent identities and social cleavages (Olsen & Saetren, 1980; Tilly, 1978)....
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...Class differences translate into political differences with great reliability across time and across cultures; differences in the organization and ideology of social class seem to lead to predictable differences in political organization and institutions (Tilly, 1978)....
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