Leading From the Periphery and Network Collective Action

Informationen zum Autor Navid Hassanpour is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He studies politics in hybrid regimes - collective action and elections under authoritarianism leading to social revolutions or stable electoral institutions. During the past two years he worked at Princeton University, New Jersey and Columbia University, New York, and his ongoing research in Tehran, Saint Petersburg, Istanbul and Beijing examines the inception of electoral institutions at the era of constitutional revolutions and the logic of their pursuing transformations. Klappentext An analysis of the overlooked role of the peripheral vanguard in the context of a network theory of collective action. Zusammenfassung Political revolutions! economic meltdowns! mass ideological conversions and collective innovation adoptions occur often; nevertheless! when they happen! they tend to be the least expected. Taking as evidence two Middle Eastern uprisings! as well as behavioural experiments of collective risk-taking! Hassanpour offers an explanation based on a novel paradigm of 'leading from the periphery'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Mobilization from the margins; 2. Decentralization of revolutionary unrest: dispersion hypothesis; 3. Vanguards at the periphery, a network formulation; 4. Civil war and contagion in small worlds; 5. Peripheral influence, experimentations in collective risk taking; 6. Decentralization and power, novel modes of social organization; Appendix.

Product details

• Authors: Navid Hassanpour
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.02.2017
• EAN: 9781107141193
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14119-3
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences; Structural Analysis in the Soc; Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences; Structural Analysis in the Soc
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Israel, Sociology, English, 20th Century, Egypt, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, 21st Century, Middle East, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Impact of science & technology on society, Political science and theory, Impact of science and technology on society, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)