Kevin Mazur
Biographic Data
| ID | 85059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Mazur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazur |
| SIGNATURE | MAZUR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2978-6214 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wartime Destruction and State Contraction: The Case of Aleppo
What does local governance look like when civil war fighting subsides without regime change or total incumbent victory? This article examines patterns of governance at the local level in the Syrian city of Aleppo over the period of 2016 to 2024, when the incumbent Assad regime pushed out rebels but failed to fully reimpose its authority. Years of conflict and destruction contracted regime control over society in fundamental ways that are not full…
Ethnicity and Strategic Repression of Protest during the 2011 Syrian Uprising
Why do incumbent governments carry out harsher repression against some opposition groups than others? Drawing on research on the coalitional nature of revolutions, we contend that governments target repression at segments of the challenger group they perceive as most threatening in order to fragment the challenger coalition. We illustrate this argument by analyzing protest repression during the 2011 Syrian uprising. We find that protestors in maj…
Response to Justin Schon’s Review of Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression
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Thinking about Groups in Political Science: A Case for Bringing the Meso Level Back In
Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression
How does protest advancing diverse claims turn into violent conflict occurring primarily along ethnic lines? This book examines that question in the context of Syria, drawing insight from the evolution of conflict at the local level. Kevin Mazur shows that the challenge to the Syrian regime did not erupt neatly along ethnic boundaries, and that lines of access to state-controlled resources played a critical structuring role; the ethnicization of …
Networks, Informal Governance, and Ethnic Violence in a Syrian City
In cross-national studies, ethnic exclusion is robustly associated with the onset of violent challenge to incumbent regimes. But significant variation remains at the subnational level—not all members of an excluded ethnic group join in challenge. This article accounts for intra-ethnic group variation in terms of the network properties of local communities, nested within ethnic groups, and the informal ties that regimes forge to some segments of t…
State Networks and Intra-Ethnic Group Variation in the 2011 Syrian Uprising
The 2011 Syrian uprising looks, from afar, like a paradigmatic example of ethnically exclusive rule giving way to civil war. The ruling regime is drawn almost exclusively from the Alawi minority, and the challengers were drawn heavily from the Sunni majority. But many Sunnis remained quiescent or actively supported the regime. This article argues that variation in revolutionary participation among members of an excluded ethnic group is best expla…
Introduction to Special Section: The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City
This special section of City and Society is dedicated to de-exceptionalizing the study of Middle Eastern cities. The introduction argues that the study of Middle Eastern cities has been constrained in its analytical and methodological focus by a genealogy shaped by a triad of regional exceptions-Islam, oil, and authoritarianism-and that the three pieces curated for this special section move beyond those constraints in important ways. Focusing on …
Explaining Divergent Revolutionary Coalitions: Regime Strategies and the Structuring of Participation in the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions
Explaining Divergent Revolutionary Coalitions: Regime Strategies and the Structuring of Participation in the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions
State Networks and Intra-Ethnic Group Variation in the 2011 Syrian Uprising
The 2011 Syrian uprising looks, from afar, like a paradigmatic example of ethnically exclusive rule giving way to civil war. The ruling regime is drawn almost exclusively from the Alawi minority, and the challengers were drawn heavily from the Sunni majority. But many Sunnis remained quiescent or actively supported the regime. This article argues that variation in revolutionary participation among members of an excluded ethnic group is best expla…
Networks, Informal Governance, and Ethnic Violence in a Syrian City
In cross-national studies, ethnic exclusion is robustly associated with the onset of violent challenge to incumbent regimes. But significant variation remains at the subnational level—not all members of an excluded ethnic group join in challenge. This article accounts for intra-ethnic group variation in terms of the network properties of local communities, nested within ethnic groups, and the informal ties that regimes forge to some segments of t…
Introduction to Special Section: The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City
This special section of City and Society is dedicated to de-exceptionalizing the study of Middle Eastern cities. The introduction argues that the study of Middle Eastern cities has been constrained in its analytical and methodological focus by a genealogy shaped by a triad of regional exceptions-Islam, oil, and authoritarianism-and that the three pieces curated for this special section move beyond those constraints in important ways. Focusing on …
Thinking about Groups in Political Science: A Case for Bringing the Meso Level Back In
Explaining Divergent Revolutionary Coalitions: Regime Strategies and the Structuring of Participation in the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions
Introduction to Special Section: The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City
This special section of City and Society is dedicated to de-exceptionalizing the study of Middle Eastern cities. The introduction argues that the study of Middle Eastern cities has been constrained in its analytical and methodological focus by a genealogy shaped by a triad of regional exceptions-Islam, oil, and authoritarianism-and that the three pieces curated for this special section move beyond those constraints in important ways. Focusing on …
State Networks and Intra-Ethnic Group Variation in the 2011 Syrian Uprising
The 2011 Syrian uprising looks, from afar, like a paradigmatic example of ethnically exclusive rule giving way to civil war. The ruling regime is drawn almost exclusively from the Alawi minority, and the challengers were drawn heavily from the Sunni majority. But many Sunnis remained quiescent or actively supported the regime. This article argues that variation in revolutionary participation among members of an excluded ethnic group is best expla…
Networks, Informal Governance, and Ethnic Violence in a Syrian City
In cross-national studies, ethnic exclusion is robustly associated with the onset of violent challenge to incumbent regimes. But significant variation remains at the subnational level—not all members of an excluded ethnic group join in challenge. This article accounts for intra-ethnic group variation in terms of the network properties of local communities, nested within ethnic groups, and the informal ties that regimes forge to some segments of t…
Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression
How does protest advancing diverse claims turn into violent conflict occurring primarily along ethnic lines? This book examines that question in the context of Syria, drawing insight from the evolution of conflict at the local level. Kevin Mazur shows that the challenge to the Syrian regime did not erupt neatly along ethnic boundaries, and that lines of access to state-controlled resources played a critical structuring role; the ethnicization of …
Response to Justin Schon’s Review of Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression
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
Thinking about Groups in Political Science: A Case for Bringing the Meso Level Back In
Ethnicity and Strategic Repression of Protest during the 2011 Syrian Uprising
Why do incumbent governments carry out harsher repression against some opposition groups than others? Drawing on research on the coalitional nature of revolutions, we contend that governments target repression at segments of the challenger group they perceive as most threatening in order to fragment the challenger coalition. We illustrate this argument by analyzing protest repression during the 2011 Syrian uprising. We find that protestors in maj…
Wartime Destruction and State Contraction: The Case of Aleppo
What does local governance look like when civil war fighting subsides without regime change or total incumbent victory? This article examines patterns of governance at the local level in the Syrian city of Aleppo over the period of 2016 to 2024, when the incumbent Assad regime pushed out rebels but failed to fully reimpose its authority. Years of conflict and destruction contracted regime control over society in fundamental ways that are not full…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Ethnic group (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)