Sources of Rebellion in Western Societies

Some Quantitative Evidence

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9753917
AutoresTed Robert Gurr (Northwestern University, autor correspondente)
Ano1970
Volume391
Fascículo1
Páginas128-144
Data de publicação1970-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000271627039100111
OpenAlexW2139070280
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas31

The extent, types, and causes of protest and rebel lion in twenty-one Western nations are statistically analyzed, using data on civil strife for 1961-65. Proportional measures of man-days and deaths in strife are combined in "magnitude of strife" scores. For more detailed comparisons, four com ponent strife scores are determined by distinguishing violent from nonviolent strife, and turmoil (riots, demonstrations) from rebellion (revolution, terrorism). The relative impor tance of three causes of strife is then examined: the extent of discontent, cultural justifications for strife, and the balance of social support between regimes and dissidents. Measures of these three causes, combined in multiple regression analyses, explain almost identical proportions of all forms of strife. The balance of social support is an important cause of variation in all forms of strife. Attitudes justifying strife are shown to be most important as causes of the least intense forms of strife. Most strikingly, discontent is found to be a negative cause of nonviolent protest but the strongest positive cause of rebel lion. These findings form the basis for an explanatory and predictive categorization of the Western nations according to their structural, cultural, and psychosocial potential for the several kinds of strife

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