Revolution

Revolution
Author: Rosemary H. T. O'Kane
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780415201360

Sultanistic Regimes

Sultanistic Regimes
Author: Houchang E. Chehabi
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1998-06-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780801856945

Authoritarian governments are often based on raw power sustained by fear of punishment and hope of reward. This text identifies common characteristics of such regimes, comparing them to totalitarian and authoritarian forms of government, and tracing common patterns for their genesis and demise.

Democratic Revolutions

Democratic Revolutions
Author: Mark K. Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2003-11-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134409478

Thompson examines the neglected concept of democratic revolutions, spontaneous popular uprisings which topple unyielding dictators and begin a transition process that eventually results in the consolidation of democracy.

Sultanistic Regimes

Sultanistic Regimes
Author: Houchang E. Chehabi
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998-06-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780801856938

Sultanistic regimes, as Juan Linz describes them, are authoritarian regimes based on personal ideology and personal favor to maintain the autocrat in power; there is little ideological basis for the rule except personal power. This volume of essays studies important sultantistic regimes in the Domanican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, Iran, and the Philippines. Part one contains two comparative essays, which discuss common characteristics of sultanistic regimes, compare them to totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, and trace common patterns for these regimes' rise and fall. Chehabi and Linz argue that sultanistic regimes do not offer favorable transitions to democracy, no matter what the person in power says. Part two applies Linz's model to country studies.

Critical Intersections

Critical Intersections
Author: M.D. Litonjua
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2006-06-19
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1463453566

Life is all about intersections. Living is where sorrow meets joy, where pain encounters ecstasy, where the weakness of the flesh is buoyed by the strength of faith, where love conquers all doubts and betrayals. Marriage is for better and worse, for richer and poorer, in sickness and health; it is for life and death. Spirituality is the arduous integration of lifes dispositions and tendencies, of ones urges and habits, for the whole to reach out in transcendence to ones fellow human beings and to God. Growth to Christian maturity is actualizing the intersecting, because cruciform, demands of love of God and love of neighbor, which follows the path that leads from Good Friday to Easter Sunday. Academic life is also becoming one of intersections. After the increasing structural differentiation and functional specialization characteristic of modernity, academic disciplines are critically intersecting and cross-fertilizing with each other for integration, enrichment, and further enlightenment. The behavioral sciences need genetics and biology for a more adequate explanation of human behavior. Homo oeconomicus of neoclassical economics is complemented by the realities of power of homo sociologicus. Theology calls on the social sciences, in addition to its ancient ancilla, philosophy, to make moral sense of social and global problems. Interdisciplinary courses try to make connections between the disciplines students have studied, and to integrate the breadth and the depth of knowledge they have been exposed to.

Theorizing Revolutions

Theorizing Revolutions
Author: John Foran
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134779208

In Theorizing Revolutions, some of the most exciting thinkers in the study of revolutions today look critically at the many theoretical frameworks through which revolutions can be understood and apply them to specific revolutionary cases. The theoretical approaches considered in this way include state-centred perspectives, structural theory, world-system analysis, elite models, demographic theories and feminism and the revolutions covered range in time from the French Revolution to Eastern Europe in 1989 and in place from Russia to Vietnam and Nicaragua.

An Analysis of Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions

An Analysis of Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions
Author: Riley Quinn
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351352873

Many people want to understand what revolutions are and – especially – how they come about, from the academics who study them to the states that wish to prevent (or, in some cases, provoke) them. But it is arguably the US scholar Theda Skocpol who has done most to create a viable model of revolution, and States and Social Revolutions is the work in which she sets out her intellectual stall. Skocpol's magnum opus can be considered a classic product of the critical thinking skill of problem-solving. She assesses several different revolutions – those of France, Russia and China – and asks new, productive questions about their causes and outcomes. The answers, collectively, allow her to move beyond existing theories such as the ‘voluntarist’ school (which suggests that revolutionaries have agency) and the Marxist school (which sees state institutions as nothing more than a front for class interests). Skocpol's model assumes that states are autonomous bureaucratic institutions, which act in their own interests – a fundamental re-imagining based on fresh interpretations of the evidence. Her analysis extends beyond the causes of revolution to their consequences, and her argument that the revolutionary state that survives is the one that successfully implements a far-reaching program of reform helps to explain not only why the three revolutions she studied have proved enduringly influential, but also why hundreds of others, less successful, are barely remembered today.

Revolution and Reaction

Revolution and Reaction
Author: Kurt Weyland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108483550

Explains how bold efforts at profound progressive change provoked a powerful reactionary backlash that led to the imposition of brutal, regressive dictatorships.