POLA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Siege Mentality
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Revolutions occur in weak states that confront strong external competition from more powerful countries and that possess highly cohesive peasants. There are no examples of social revolutions that result in democracy, social revolutions involve taking property and violence that undermines democracy. Rapid and violent change of a country"s state structure, social structure, that is accompanied by mass-based revolts from below. How long a post-revolutionary regime stays in power. A regime = the rule in which power is gained and maintained. The threats from the outside = protest/armed rebellion. The threats from within = dissension within the party/military coups. Importance of consistent repression (lichbach reading) libach argues that . The scale of the repression doesn"t ensure a successful repression. If your repression is inconsistent, then you have a problem of punishing and rewarding the protesters for protests because it gives them the impression that they could possibly get a reward. A type of authoritarian breakdown from within is called elite defection.
