POLS 1500- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 17 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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If we are seriously intending to overthrow a government, then we need to think of the possibility that the government will use force to resist this challenge to its authority. Indeed, often a challenge to the government that seeks to replace it with another political order will take the form of an armed rebellion, in anticipation of the armed response. The revolutions of 1989: this section offers up a few examples, theda skopol(cid:859)s (cid:449)ork o(cid:374) so(cid:272)ial re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374)s is i(cid:374)teresti(cid:374)g here. She argues that although revolutions are often directed against the authority and power of the state, what happens in the end is not the reduction of state power but actually the reverse: its reinforcement. A different set of rulers, with perhaps different ideological commitments, take over the running of the state apparatus after a revolution, but the state itself, as an institution, is strengthened rather than weakened.
