Eva Bellin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1102983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Bellin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Bellin |
| SIGNATURE | BELLIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 855 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
Between Military Rule and Democracy: Regime Consolidation in Greece, Turkey, and Beyond
Why do some military coups succeed and others fail? Why do some armed interventions give rise to democracies, while others establish authoritarian regimes? These are two of the intriguing questions posed by Yaprak Gürsoy in Between Military Rule and Democracy. To answer them, Gürsoy undertakes a comparative historical analysis of Greece and Turkey—two countries rarely paired for comparison despite such important similarities as their shared Ottom…
The Puzzle of Democratic Divergence in the Arab World: Theory Confronts Experience in Egypt and Tunisia
THE ARAB UPRISINGS OF 2011–2012—popular protests that challenged authoritarian rule across the Middle East and North Africa—took the world by surprise. The possibility that the Arab region might finally be loosening the chains of tyranny was electrifying. But within five years, this hope had largely been dashed. Popular mobilization had left in its wake a political scene littered with state collapse, civil war, and authoritarian regression. To pe…
Books by Our Readers
As Routledge's new text for public diplomacy courses, this book offers a modern guide for how to practice strategic communication around the globe. Drawing upon interviews
Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia
Over the past decade, innovations in digital communication technology have been celebrated as a major asset in the campaign to destabilize authoritarianism. Mobile phones, the Internet, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have been lauded for their contribution to mobilizing regime-challenging protest thanks to their capacity to disseminate information, build networks of solidarity, and coordinate collective action. But in Networked Publics and Digita…
Pondering the Extraordinary: Description, Explanation, and Theorization of the Arab Spring
There is no doubt that the Middle East has never been a contention-free zone; this is a region where people have suffered enormous economic, political, and social grievances often imposed upon them by the state. And yet, for years effective and credible opposition parties were rarely organized (save for Islamist ones) and protest movements remained flaccid. This failure to mobilize effective, regime-changing parties and protest movements has cons…
Response to Howard and Walters
Surprise is an intrinsic fact of political life and its elimination, especially with regard to extraordinary moments of protest and revolution, is a vain endeavor. Prediction and explanation are fundamentally different enterprises. While scholars may be well-positioned to trace, retrospectively, the motivation, networks, leadership, and other contextual factors that fueled the events of 2011 and 1989, such analysis will never bestow the sort of p…
Reconsidering the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Lessons from the Arab Spring
The “Arab Spring” has proven astonishing and exhilarating to Middle East analysts and activists alike. Starting in Tunisia and spreading quickly to Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Syria and beyond, a wave of political protest, unprecedented in scope and ambition, swept the region in 2011. In short order, two deeply entrenched authoritarian rulers were jettisoned from office, and by early summer the leaders of at least three other Arab regimes appea…
Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development
In this ambitious book, Eva Bellin examines the dynamics of democratization in late-developing countries where the process has stalled. Bellin focuses on the pivotal role of social forces and particularly the reluctance of capital and labor to champion democratic transition, contrary to the expectations of political economists versed in earlier transitions. Bellin argues that the special conditions of late development, most notably the political …
A dvice to P resident O bama: Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Louis J. Cantori 1
Faith in Politics. New Trends in the Study of Religion and Politics
Studies of religion and politics have begun to force their way into the mainstream of the discipline thanks to their increasing methodological sophistication and theoretical ambition in addition to the push of real-world events. In comparative politics, puzzle-driven structured comparison has yielded new insights into the rationality of religious behavior, the weight of path dependence in shaping religious values, and the play of socioeconomic fa…
The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective
Why have the Middle East and North Africa remained so singularly resistant to democratization? While the number of electoral democracies has nearly doubled since 1972, the number in this region has registered an absolute decline.1 Today, only two out of twenty-one countries qualify as electoral democracies, down from three observed in 1972.2 Stagnation is also evident in the guarantee of political rights and civil liberties. While the number of c…
The Iraqi Intervention and Democracy in Comparative Historical Perspective
Is military occupation likely to be the midwife of democracy? Can democracy be imposed by force from the outside? This is the assumption driv ing America's intervention in Iraq and posited as a potential new pillar of am bition for U.S. foreign policy elsewhere. But is this assumption historically grounded? The architects of the Iraqi intervention point to the success of America's occupation of postwar Germany and Japan as evidence that occupa ti…
Contingent Democrats: Industrialists, Labor, and Democratization in Late-Developing Countries
Many classic works of political economy have identified capital and labor as the champions of democratization during the first wave of transition. By contrast, this article argues for the contingent nature of capital and labor's support for democracy, especially in the context of late development. The article offers a theory of democratic contingency, proposing that a few variables, namely, state dependence, aristocratic privilege, and social fea…
Civil Society: Effective Tool of Analysis for Middle East Politics
Does the Middle East's presumed “exceptionalism” imply the disutility of “civil society” as a tool for political analysis? Although the term has gained wide usage in other areas of the world, the Middle East specialists have shown some reluctance to employ it in their own region. This reluctance stems in part from the perception that the term is ambiguous and politically loaded. Historically, “civil society” has signified everything from the peac…
The politics of profit in Tunisia: Utility of the rentier paradigm
The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective
Why have the Middle East and North Africa remained so singularly resistant to democratization? While the number of electoral democracies has nearly doubled since 1972, the number in this region has registered an absolute decline.1 Today, only two out of twenty-one countries qualify as electoral democracies, down from three observed in 1972.2 Stagnation is also evident in the guarantee of political rights and civil liberties. While the number of c…
Reconsidering the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Lessons from the Arab Spring
The “Arab Spring” has proven astonishing and exhilarating to Middle East analysts and activists alike. Starting in Tunisia and spreading quickly to Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Syria and beyond, a wave of political protest, unprecedented in scope and ambition, swept the region in 2011. In short order, two deeply entrenched authoritarian rulers were jettisoned from office, and by early summer the leaders of at least three other Arab regimes appea…
Contingent Democrats: Industrialists, Labor, and Democratization in Late-Developing Countries
Many classic works of political economy have identified capital and labor as the champions of democratization during the first wave of transition. By contrast, this article argues for the contingent nature of capital and labor's support for democracy, especially in the context of late development. The article offers a theory of democratic contingency, proposing that a few variables, namely, state dependence, aristocratic privilege, and social fea…
Faith in Politics. New Trends in the Study of Religion and Politics
Studies of religion and politics have begun to force their way into the mainstream of the discipline thanks to their increasing methodological sophistication and theoretical ambition in addition to the push of real-world events. In comparative politics, puzzle-driven structured comparison has yielded new insights into the rationality of religious behavior, the weight of path dependence in shaping religious values, and the play of socioeconomic fa…
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development
In this ambitious book, Eva Bellin examines the dynamics of democratization in late-developing countries where the process has stalled. Bellin focuses on the pivotal role of social forces and particularly the reluctance of capital and labor to champion democratic transition, contrary to the expectations of political economists versed in earlier transitions. Bellin argues that the special conditions of late development, most notably the political …
The politics of profit in Tunisia: Utility of the rentier paradigm
The Puzzle of Democratic Divergence in the Arab World: Theory Confronts Experience in Egypt and Tunisia
THE ARAB UPRISINGS OF 2011–2012—popular protests that challenged authoritarian rule across the Middle East and North Africa—took the world by surprise. The possibility that the Arab region might finally be loosening the chains of tyranny was electrifying. But within five years, this hope had largely been dashed. Popular mobilization had left in its wake a political scene littered with state collapse, civil war, and authoritarian regression. To pe…
The Iraqi Intervention and Democracy in Comparative Historical Perspective
Is military occupation likely to be the midwife of democracy? Can democracy be imposed by force from the outside? This is the assumption driv ing America's intervention in Iraq and posited as a potential new pillar of am bition for U.S. foreign policy elsewhere. But is this assumption historically grounded? The architects of the Iraqi intervention point to the success of America's occupation of postwar Germany and Japan as evidence that occupa ti…
Civil Society: Effective Tool of Analysis for Middle East Politics
Does the Middle East's presumed “exceptionalism” imply the disutility of “civil society” as a tool for political analysis? Although the term has gained wide usage in other areas of the world, the Middle East specialists have shown some reluctance to employ it in their own region. This reluctance stems in part from the perception that the term is ambiguous and politically loaded. Historically, “civil society” has signified everything from the peac…
Civil Society: Effective Tool of Analysis for Middle East Politics
Does the Middle East's presumed “exceptionalism” imply the disutility of “civil society” as a tool for political analysis? Although the term has gained wide usage in other areas of the world, the Middle East specialists have shown some reluctance to employ it in their own region. This reluctance stems in part from the perception that the term is ambiguous and politically loaded. Historically, “civil society” has signified everything from the peac…
The politics of profit in Tunisia: Utility of the rentier paradigm
Contingent Democrats: Industrialists, Labor, and Democratization in Late-Developing Countries
Many classic works of political economy have identified capital and labor as the champions of democratization during the first wave of transition. By contrast, this article argues for the contingent nature of capital and labor's support for democracy, especially in the context of late development. The article offers a theory of democratic contingency, proposing that a few variables, namely, state dependence, aristocratic privilege, and social fea…
The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective
Why have the Middle East and North Africa remained so singularly resistant to democratization? While the number of electoral democracies has nearly doubled since 1972, the number in this region has registered an absolute decline.1 Today, only two out of twenty-one countries qualify as electoral democracies, down from three observed in 1972.2 Stagnation is also evident in the guarantee of political rights and civil liberties. While the number of c…
The Iraqi Intervention and Democracy in Comparative Historical Perspective
Is military occupation likely to be the midwife of democracy? Can democracy be imposed by force from the outside? This is the assumption driv ing America's intervention in Iraq and posited as a potential new pillar of am bition for U.S. foreign policy elsewhere. But is this assumption historically grounded? The architects of the Iraqi intervention point to the success of America's occupation of postwar Germany and Japan as evidence that occupa ti…
A dvice to P resident O bama: Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Louis J. Cantori 1
Faith in Politics. New Trends in the Study of Religion and Politics
Studies of religion and politics have begun to force their way into the mainstream of the discipline thanks to their increasing methodological sophistication and theoretical ambition in addition to the push of real-world events. In comparative politics, puzzle-driven structured comparison has yielded new insights into the rationality of religious behavior, the weight of path dependence in shaping religious values, and the play of socioeconomic fa…
Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development
In this ambitious book, Eva Bellin examines the dynamics of democratization in late-developing countries where the process has stalled. Bellin focuses on the pivotal role of social forces and particularly the reluctance of capital and labor to champion democratic transition, contrary to the expectations of political economists versed in earlier transitions. Bellin argues that the special conditions of late development, most notably the political …
Reconsidering the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Lessons from the Arab Spring
The “Arab Spring” has proven astonishing and exhilarating to Middle East analysts and activists alike. Starting in Tunisia and spreading quickly to Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Syria and beyond, a wave of political protest, unprecedented in scope and ambition, swept the region in 2011. In short order, two deeply entrenched authoritarian rulers were jettisoned from office, and by early summer the leaders of at least three other Arab regimes appea…
Pondering the Extraordinary: Description, Explanation, and Theorization of the Arab Spring
There is no doubt that the Middle East has never been a contention-free zone; this is a region where people have suffered enormous economic, political, and social grievances often imposed upon them by the state. And yet, for years effective and credible opposition parties were rarely organized (save for Islamist ones) and protest movements remained flaccid. This failure to mobilize effective, regime-changing parties and protest movements has cons…
Response to Howard and Walters
Surprise is an intrinsic fact of political life and its elimination, especially with regard to extraordinary moments of protest and revolution, is a vain endeavor. Prediction and explanation are fundamentally different enterprises. While scholars may be well-positioned to trace, retrospectively, the motivation, networks, leadership, and other contextual factors that fueled the events of 2011 and 1989, such analysis will never bestow the sort of p…
Books by Our Readers
As Routledge's new text for public diplomacy courses, this book offers a modern guide for how to practice strategic communication around the globe. Drawing upon interviews
Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia
Over the past decade, innovations in digital communication technology have been celebrated as a major asset in the campaign to destabilize authoritarianism. Mobile phones, the Internet, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have been lauded for their contribution to mobilizing regime-challenging protest thanks to their capacity to disseminate information, build networks of solidarity, and coordinate collective action. But in Networked Publics and Digita…
Between Military Rule and Democracy: Regime Consolidation in Greece, Turkey, and Beyond
Why do some military coups succeed and others fail? Why do some armed interventions give rise to democracies, while others establish authoritarian regimes? These are two of the intriguing questions posed by Yaprak Gürsoy in Between Military Rule and Democracy. To answer them, Gürsoy undertakes a comparative historical analysis of Greece and Turkey—two countries rarely paired for comparison despite such important similarities as their shared Ottom…
The Puzzle of Democratic Divergence in the Arab World: Theory Confronts Experience in Egypt and Tunisia
THE ARAB UPRISINGS OF 2011–2012—popular protests that challenged authoritarian rule across the Middle East and North Africa—took the world by surprise. The possibility that the Arab region might finally be loosening the chains of tyranny was electrifying. But within five years, this hope had largely been dashed. Popular mobilization had left in its wake a political scene littered with state collapse, civil war, and authoritarian regression. To pe…
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
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