D M Mo
Biographic Data
| ID | 44418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D M Mo |
| GIVEN NAMES | D M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mo |
| SIGNATURE | MO D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0430-7531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 312 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Civic Opportunities and Democratic Practices in Yemen and Libya after the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes
The Arab Spring revolutions of 2011 sent shockwaves across the globe, mobilizing diaspora communities to organize forcefully against authoritarian regimes. Despite the important role that diasporas can play in influencing affairs in their countries of origin, little is known about when diaspora actors mobilize, how they intervene, or what makes them effective. This book addresses these questions, drawing on over 230 original interviews, fieldwork…
Going after the family: Transnational repression and the proxy punishment of Middle Eastern diasporas
Diasporas play a critical role in home-country politics by supporting social, political, and economic change therein. Yet, regimes countermobilize against activists abroad by repressing their diasporas. This paper investigates a widespread but overlooked method in the transnational repression toolkit: that of 'proxy punishment', that is, the abuse of family members at home as a means to manipulate and subjugate dissidents abroad. Using 246 origin…
Reconciling complexity and clarity in revolution studies
Voice After Exit: Explaining Diaspora Mobilization for the Arab Spring
Research demonstrates that diaspora movements play a powerful role in contentious politics and social change in their homelands under a range of conditions. However, few have systematically explained the conditions that facilitate diaspora movements’ “voice” after “exit” across cases or over time. The article addresses this shortcoming by explaining how and to what extent diaspora movements became auxiliary forces for anti-regime rebellions durin…
Suppressing transnationalism: Bringing constraints into the study of transnational political action
Studies of transnationalism typically account for homeland-oriented transnational political action (TPA) as the product of varying political opportunities. Yet, the opportunity-driven perspective overlooks why some immigrant and diaspora communities refrain from engaging in homeland politics or are forestalled in their attempts to do so. We address this shortcoming by theorizing how sociopolitical conditions can constrain TPA. Drawing inductively…
Contentious Politics in the Trump Era
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Intervention: Extraterritorial authoritarian power
Theorizing Social Movements
The ties that bind: Internet communication technologies, networked authoritarianism, and ‘voice’ in the Syrian diaspora
Internet communication technologies (ICTs) enable diasporas to act transnationally by facilitating ties to their places of origin and providing low-cost ways to mobilize against home-country regimes. However, studies neglect to address how ICTs globalize regimes’ methods of social control and impact anti-regime diasporas. In order to investigate the operation and effects of what I call digitally-enabled transnational repression, this study analyz…
Cross-National and Longitudinal Variations in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1965 to 2005
This paper analyzes cross-national and longitudinal variations in criminal laws regulating sexual activities. We blend historical and sociological institutionalisms to argue that criminal sex laws embody exogenous models, supplied by colonial and imperial powers and evolving world society. To test our ideas, we apply logit-panel and pooled-time-series models to original data from more than 150 countries on four aspects of sex laws, 1965 to 2005: …
Diaspora Mobilization for Western Military Intervention During the Arab Spring
Literature on diaspora interest groups suggests that they exacerbate home-country conflicts by lobbying for hawkish interventions. However, studies fall short of understanding why diasporas support militarized interventions in home-country conflicts. Using original data on Libyan and Syrian pro-revolution activism during the Arab Spring, I demonstrate that extreme escalations in state repression, activists’ transnational ties, and norms supportin…
Transnational Repression, Diaspora Mobilization, and the Case of The Arab Spring
Do authoritarian states deter dissent in the diaspora? Using data on Libyan and Syrian activism in the United States and Great Britain, this study demonstrates that they do through violence, exile, threats, surveillance, and by harming dissidents’ relatives at home. The analysis finds that the transnational repression of these diasporas deterred public anti-regime mobilization before the Arab Spring. I then identify the mechanisms by which Libyan…
Repression, Response, and Contained Escalation Under "Liberalized" Authoritarianism in Jordan
Studies of repression's effects on mobilization overwhelmingly focus on how severe repression affects the volume of protest, overlooking how activists perceive and experience a range of repressive tactics and how their tactical adaptations to this repertoire produce broader patterns of contention. This study therefore identifies repression's variegated forms and movements' corresponding responses using fifty-seven interviews with reform-oriented …
Protest on the Fly: Toward a Theory of Spontaneity in the Dynamics of Protest and Social Movements
This article reexamines spontaneity as an important, albeit neglected, mechanism in collective action dynamics, and elaborates on its operation and effects in protest events and social movements. We do not presume that spontaneity is routinely at play in all collective actions. Rather, based on our grounded analysis of historical and ethnographic data, we contend that spontaneity is triggered by certain conditions: nonhierarchical organization; u…
Libya since 1969: Qadhafi's revolution revisited
Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential: Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential
Following up onZirin’s (2008)challenge that sports sociologists “get off the bench,” andKaren and Washington’s (2001) plea to make sports sociology more central to analyses of social power, this article empirically reviews and assesses the sociology of sports from 1977–2008. Using a sample of 441 articles selected from the three major sports sociology journals during that period, we conclude that sports sociology exhibits a strong and increasing …
Protest on the Fly: Toward a Theory of Spontaneity in the Dynamics of Protest and Social Movements
This article reexamines spontaneity as an important, albeit neglected, mechanism in collective action dynamics, and elaborates on its operation and effects in protest events and social movements. We do not presume that spontaneity is routinely at play in all collective actions. Rather, based on our grounded analysis of historical and ethnographic data, we contend that spontaneity is triggered by certain conditions: nonhierarchical organization; u…
Transnational Repression, Diaspora Mobilization, and the Case of The Arab Spring
Do authoritarian states deter dissent in the diaspora? Using data on Libyan and Syrian activism in the United States and Great Britain, this study demonstrates that they do through violence, exile, threats, surveillance, and by harming dissidents’ relatives at home. The analysis finds that the transnational repression of these diasporas deterred public anti-regime mobilization before the Arab Spring. I then identify the mechanisms by which Libyan…
The ties that bind: Internet communication technologies, networked authoritarianism, and ‘voice’ in the Syrian diaspora
Internet communication technologies (ICTs) enable diasporas to act transnationally by facilitating ties to their places of origin and providing low-cost ways to mobilize against home-country regimes. However, studies neglect to address how ICTs globalize regimes’ methods of social control and impact anti-regime diasporas. In order to investigate the operation and effects of what I call digitally-enabled transnational repression, this study analyz…
Repression, Response, and Contained Escalation Under "Liberalized" Authoritarianism in Jordan
Studies of repression's effects on mobilization overwhelmingly focus on how severe repression affects the volume of protest, overlooking how activists perceive and experience a range of repressive tactics and how their tactical adaptations to this repertoire produce broader patterns of contention. This study therefore identifies repression's variegated forms and movements' corresponding responses using fifty-seven interviews with reform-oriented …
The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes
The Arab Spring revolutions of 2011 sent shockwaves across the globe, mobilizing diaspora communities to organize forcefully against authoritarian regimes. Despite the important role that diasporas can play in influencing affairs in their countries of origin, little is known about when diaspora actors mobilize, how they intervene, or what makes them effective. This book addresses these questions, drawing on over 230 original interviews, fieldwork…
Intervention: Extraterritorial authoritarian power
Going after the family: Transnational repression and the proxy punishment of Middle Eastern diasporas
Diasporas play a critical role in home-country politics by supporting social, political, and economic change therein. Yet, regimes countermobilize against activists abroad by repressing their diasporas. This paper investigates a widespread but overlooked method in the transnational repression toolkit: that of 'proxy punishment', that is, the abuse of family members at home as a means to manipulate and subjugate dissidents abroad. Using 246 origin…
Suppressing transnationalism: Bringing constraints into the study of transnational political action
Studies of transnationalism typically account for homeland-oriented transnational political action (TPA) as the product of varying political opportunities. Yet, the opportunity-driven perspective overlooks why some immigrant and diaspora communities refrain from engaging in homeland politics or are forestalled in their attempts to do so. We address this shortcoming by theorizing how sociopolitical conditions can constrain TPA. Drawing inductively…
Diaspora Mobilization for Western Military Intervention During the Arab Spring
Literature on diaspora interest groups suggests that they exacerbate home-country conflicts by lobbying for hawkish interventions. However, studies fall short of understanding why diasporas support militarized interventions in home-country conflicts. Using original data on Libyan and Syrian pro-revolution activism during the Arab Spring, I demonstrate that extreme escalations in state repression, activists’ transnational ties, and norms supportin…
Libya since 1969: Qadhafi's revolution revisited
Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential: Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential
Following up onZirin’s (2008)challenge that sports sociologists “get off the bench,” andKaren and Washington’s (2001) plea to make sports sociology more central to analyses of social power, this article empirically reviews and assesses the sociology of sports from 1977–2008. Using a sample of 441 articles selected from the three major sports sociology journals during that period, we conclude that sports sociology exhibits a strong and increasing …
Cross-National and Longitudinal Variations in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1965 to 2005
This paper analyzes cross-national and longitudinal variations in criminal laws regulating sexual activities. We blend historical and sociological institutionalisms to argue that criminal sex laws embody exogenous models, supplied by colonial and imperial powers and evolving world society. To test our ideas, we apply logit-panel and pooled-time-series models to original data from more than 150 countries on four aspects of sex laws, 1965 to 2005: …
Contentious Politics in the Trump Era
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential: Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential
Following up onZirin’s (2008)challenge that sports sociologists “get off the bench,” andKaren and Washington’s (2001) plea to make sports sociology more central to analyses of social power, this article empirically reviews and assesses the sociology of sports from 1977–2008. Using a sample of 441 articles selected from the three major sports sociology journals during that period, we conclude that sports sociology exhibits a strong and increasing …
Libya since 1969: Qadhafi's revolution revisited
Repression, Response, and Contained Escalation Under "Liberalized" Authoritarianism in Jordan
Studies of repression's effects on mobilization overwhelmingly focus on how severe repression affects the volume of protest, overlooking how activists perceive and experience a range of repressive tactics and how their tactical adaptations to this repertoire produce broader patterns of contention. This study therefore identifies repression's variegated forms and movements' corresponding responses using fifty-seven interviews with reform-oriented …
Protest on the Fly: Toward a Theory of Spontaneity in the Dynamics of Protest and Social Movements
This article reexamines spontaneity as an important, albeit neglected, mechanism in collective action dynamics, and elaborates on its operation and effects in protest events and social movements. We do not presume that spontaneity is routinely at play in all collective actions. Rather, based on our grounded analysis of historical and ethnographic data, we contend that spontaneity is triggered by certain conditions: nonhierarchical organization; u…
Theorizing Social Movements
The ties that bind: Internet communication technologies, networked authoritarianism, and ‘voice’ in the Syrian diaspora
Internet communication technologies (ICTs) enable diasporas to act transnationally by facilitating ties to their places of origin and providing low-cost ways to mobilize against home-country regimes. However, studies neglect to address how ICTs globalize regimes’ methods of social control and impact anti-regime diasporas. In order to investigate the operation and effects of what I call digitally-enabled transnational repression, this study analyz…
Cross-National and Longitudinal Variations in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1965 to 2005
This paper analyzes cross-national and longitudinal variations in criminal laws regulating sexual activities. We blend historical and sociological institutionalisms to argue that criminal sex laws embody exogenous models, supplied by colonial and imperial powers and evolving world society. To test our ideas, we apply logit-panel and pooled-time-series models to original data from more than 150 countries on four aspects of sex laws, 1965 to 2005: …
Diaspora Mobilization for Western Military Intervention During the Arab Spring
Literature on diaspora interest groups suggests that they exacerbate home-country conflicts by lobbying for hawkish interventions. However, studies fall short of understanding why diasporas support militarized interventions in home-country conflicts. Using original data on Libyan and Syrian pro-revolution activism during the Arab Spring, I demonstrate that extreme escalations in state repression, activists’ transnational ties, and norms supportin…
Transnational Repression, Diaspora Mobilization, and the Case of The Arab Spring
Do authoritarian states deter dissent in the diaspora? Using data on Libyan and Syrian activism in the United States and Great Britain, this study demonstrates that they do through violence, exile, threats, surveillance, and by harming dissidents’ relatives at home. The analysis finds that the transnational repression of these diasporas deterred public anti-regime mobilization before the Arab Spring. I then identify the mechanisms by which Libyan…
Contentious Politics in the Trump Era
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Intervention: Extraterritorial authoritarian power
Suppressing transnationalism: Bringing constraints into the study of transnational political action
Studies of transnationalism typically account for homeland-oriented transnational political action (TPA) as the product of varying political opportunities. Yet, the opportunity-driven perspective overlooks why some immigrant and diaspora communities refrain from engaging in homeland politics or are forestalled in their attempts to do so. We address this shortcoming by theorizing how sociopolitical conditions can constrain TPA. Drawing inductively…
Voice After Exit: Explaining Diaspora Mobilization for the Arab Spring
Research demonstrates that diaspora movements play a powerful role in contentious politics and social change in their homelands under a range of conditions. However, few have systematically explained the conditions that facilitate diaspora movements’ “voice” after “exit” across cases or over time. The article addresses this shortcoming by explaining how and to what extent diaspora movements became auxiliary forces for anti-regime rebellions durin…
Reconciling complexity and clarity in revolution studies
The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes
The Arab Spring revolutions of 2011 sent shockwaves across the globe, mobilizing diaspora communities to organize forcefully against authoritarian regimes. Despite the important role that diasporas can play in influencing affairs in their countries of origin, little is known about when diaspora actors mobilize, how they intervene, or what makes them effective. This book addresses these questions, drawing on over 230 original interviews, fieldwork…
Going after the family: Transnational repression and the proxy punishment of Middle Eastern diasporas
Diasporas play a critical role in home-country politics by supporting social, political, and economic change therein. Yet, regimes countermobilize against activists abroad by repressing their diasporas. This paper investigates a widespread but overlooked method in the transnational repression toolkit: that of 'proxy punishment', that is, the abuse of family members at home as a means to manipulate and subjugate dissidents abroad. Using 246 origin…
Civic Opportunities and Democratic Practices in Yemen and Libya after the Arab Spring
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Authoritarianism (7 works) · Democracy (7 works) · Diaspora (7 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (7 works)