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Review: What Makes Peasants Revolutionary? Reviewed Work(s): Peasants, Politics, and Revolution: Pressures toward Political and Social Change in the Third World by Joel S. Migdal Agrarian Revolution: Social Movements and Export Agriculture in the Underdeveloped World
Jeffery M. Paige,Theda Skocpol +1 more
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The article was published on 2007-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 357 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Agricultural revolution & Social movement.read more
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Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
James D. Fearon,David D. Laitin +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that the current prevalence of internal war is mainly the result of a steady accumulation of protracted conflicts since the 1950s and 1960s rather than a sudden change associated with a new, post-Cold War international system.
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The Political Economy of the Resource Curse
TL;DR: This paper reviewed a wide range of recent attempts in both economics and political science to explain the "resource curse" and found that much has been learned about the economic problems of resource exporters but less is known about their political problems.
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The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry
Theda Skocpol,Margaret R. Somers +1 more
TL;DR: Comparative history is not new. As long as people have investigated social life, there has been recurrent fascination with juxtaposing historical patterns from two or more times or places as mentioned in this paper.
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Conceptual 'Stretching' Revisited: Adapting Categories in Comparative Analysis
David Collier,James E. Mahon +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the challenge posed by two types of non-classical categories: family resemblances and radial categories, and discuss solutions to these problems, using examples of how scholars have adapted their categories in comparative research on democracy and authoritarianism.
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