Revolutions, Crackdowns, and Quiescence
Communal Elites and Democratic Mobilization in Southeast Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2221044 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Slater (0000-0002-1079-7952, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 115 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 203-254 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/597796 |
| OpenAlex | W1997078510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 78 |
| References cited | 108 |
Urban mass mobilization often stimulates the collapse of authoritarian regimes, but the literature on social forces in democratization has not dealt adequately with these episodes of popular protest. Nor has it systematically compared democratic revolutions with cases of authoritarian crackdown and chronic quiescence, despite the prevalence of these alternative outcomes. This article critiques the democratization literature's excessive focus on class actors and economic factors by highlighting the importance of emotive appeals to nationalist and religious sentiments and solidarities in sparking, sustaining, and sanctifying high‐risk protest against authoritarian governments. A comparative historical analysis of seven Southeast Asian countries reveals that democratic uprisings are more likely both to emerge and to succeed when communal elites—a society's primary possessors of nationalist and religious authority—assume an oppositional posture. Explaining variation in mobilization outcomes thus requires examining whether communal elites have gained political salience and retained political autonomy through long‐term processes of political development
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economics · Elite · Mass mobilization · Mobilization · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Salience (neuroscience) · Social movement · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Unique citing works | 78 |
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| Citations per year | 4,88 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 67 |