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Offers a new perspective on the relationship between states and social movements in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian contexts.
List of contents
1. State-Mobilized Movements: A Research Agenda Grzegorz Ekiert and Elizabeth J. Perry; 2. Manufactured Ambiguity: Party-State Mobilization Strategy in the March 1968 Crisis in Poland Dominika Kruszewska and Grzegorz Ekiert; 3. Suppressing Students in the People's Republic of China: Proletarian State-Mobilized Movements in 1968 and 1989 Elizabeth J. Perry and Yan Xiaojun; 4. Mobilization for Development in Rural Taiwan Kristen Looney; 5. Enforcement Networks and Racial Contention in Civil Rights-Era Mississippi David Cunningham and Peter B. Owen; 6. Social Sources of Counterrevolution: State-Mobilized Movements during Revolutionary Episodes Mark Beissinger; 7. Occupy Youth! State-Mobilized Movements in the Putin Era (or, What Was Nashi and What Comes Next?) Julie Hemment; 8. State-Mobilized Movements after Annexation of Crimea: The Construction of Novorossiya Samuel A. Greene and Graeme B. Robertson; 9. Mirroring Opposition Threats: The Logic of State Mobilization in Bolivarian Venezuela Sam Handlin; 10. Party-led Mobilization: Veterans as a Pivotal Political Actor Danijela Dolenec and Daniela Širini¿; 11. The Dynamics of State-Mobilized Movements: Insights from Egypt Ashley Anderson and Melani Cammett; 12. State-Mobilized Movements and the Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong, 2013-2015 Eliza W. Y. Lee; 13. The Resurrection of Lei Feng: Rebuilding the Chinese Party-State's Infrastructure of Volunteer Mobilization David Palmer and Rundong Ning.
About the author
Grzegorz Ekiert is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government at Harvard University.Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University.Yan Xiaojun is Associate Professor of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong.
Summary
This book is the first cross-national and historical investigation of State-Mobilized Movements (SMMs). By enlarging the analytical horizons of social movement and civil society research, as well as our understanding of the bases of authoritarian rule, the volume aims to encourage debate and stimulate new research on state-society relations.
