Theories of Revolution
The Third Generation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5814940 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jack Α Goldstone (0000-0003-1524-6081, Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 425-453 |
| Publication date | 1980-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2010111 |
| OpenAlex | W2063938048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 102 |
| References cited | 45 |
The work of Ted Robert Gurr, Chalmers Johnson, Neil Smelser, Samuel P. Huntington, and Charles Tilly has dominated the recent study of revolutions. However, Jeffrey Paige, Ellen Kay Trimberger, S. N. Eisenstadt, and Theda Skocpol have lately produced theories of revolution that are far better grounded historically than those in earlier works. Five major points were neglected by earlier theorists: (1) the variable goals and structures of states; (2) the systematic intrusion of international pressures on the domestic political and economic organization of societies; (3) the structure of peasant communities; (4) the coherence or weakness of the armed forces; and (5) the variables affecting elite behavior. Starting from these points, Paige, Trimberger, Eisenstadt, and Skocpol have produced analyses of the causes and outcomes of a variety of revolutions. Yet significant challenges to the theory of revolutions-such as extending the range of cases analyzed, clarifying the grounds of peasant behavior, and tying theoretical analysis to demographic data-still remain
Elite · Peasant · Tying · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Social and Economic Development in India · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Geopolitics of the Chinese Communist Party in the Twentieth Century
Barbarity as the Reverse Side of Civilization
The Challenge of Revolution
Revolution
Toward a Fourth Generation of Revolutionary Theory
The Revolutionary Process
Anatomies of Revolution
Refleksje nad historiografią i teorią rewolucji
Quantitative Analysis of Political Factors of Revolutionary Destabilization (A Systematic Review)
Czy Solidarność 1980-1981 była ruchem rewolucyjnym
Revolution and war
Anatomies of Revolution
Taking Power
State Breakdown in the English Revolution
A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Factors of Revolutionary Destabilization
Towards the Ranking of the Importance of Revolutionary Destabilization Factors in Asian and African Countries Using Machine Learning Methods
Generation as a political project – the generation Tasgotbas! and revolution in Sudan
Ideology, cultural frameworks, and the process of revolution
Revolutionary outcomes in Iran and Nicaragua
On the Outcomes of Revolutions
Strategic acquiescence
Un printemps arabe ? L’émulation protestataire et ses limites
The sixth great power’
Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict
Political instability in Africa
The Transformation of the Western State
Demographic Structural Theory
Great transformations
Theorizing the Constitutional Revolution
Decision-Making in Revolutionary States
On Classification of Revolutions
No Spring in A frica
Go local, go global
Memory & history—mémoire & histoire
What Was Revolutionary about the Iranian Revolution? The Power of Possibility
Women, Youth, and the Egyptian Arab Spring
The Romanian revolution from a theoretical perspective
A Typology of Populisms and Changing Forms of Society
Insurgency and counter‐insurgency
Making revolution
The Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies. Part I
Concepts and Skocpol
Framing the revolution
Revolutions and rational choice
The by-product theory of revolution
The developmental parameters of relative deprivation theory
The urban character of contemporary revolutions
Black Leadership Matters
Understanding Context and Contradiction in the Concept of Violence
Revolution in Telengana (1946–1951)
Multinational Corporations and Political Risk in the Persian Gulf
Models in historical sociology
Hacia una sociología evolucionista de la revolución
Hacia una sociología evolucionista de la revolución
A History and Sociology of Historical Sociology
Charles Tilly’s Historical Sociology
Iranian Studies and the Iranian Revolution
State Power, Institutional Change, and the Politics of Privatization in Russia
Moral Development and Political Change
The End of Revolution
Authority and Association
Russian Centrism and Revolutionary Transitions
Islamism, Revolution, and Civil Society
Center and Periphery in the Ottoman Empire
Paradigm in Distress
So You Say You Want a Revolution
Scarcity and Inequality
Post-Soviet Transitions and Democratization
State Disintegration and Urban-Based Revolutionary Crisis
Forecasting Internal Conflict
Contending Theories of Contentious Politics and the Structure-Action Problem of Social Order
Toward a Fourth Generation of Revolutionary Theory
Theories of revolution
Thucydides
Is Revolution Individually Rational
Power and the French Revolution
The Next Waves
Why Peasants Rebel
Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence From Russia's Emancipation of the Serfs
Insurgent-populace relations in Nepal
Rethinking Revolutions
Thinking Beyond Generations
A Fifth Generation of Revolutionary Theory is Yet to Come
Toward a Regeneration of Revolutionary Theory
Introduction
Conflict Resolution, Ethnonationalism and the Middle East Impasse
Over the Hill? The Anatomy of Revolution at Fifty
Thoroughly Modern Revolutionaries
War and the Fate of Regimes
Comparative Political Sociology
Theories of Revolution Revisited
A Theory of Third World Social Revolutions
Is the Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies Still Coming
The Generations of Revolutionary Theory Revisited
Revolution and Diavolution
Within and Beyond the 'Fourth Generation' of Revolutionary Theory
Social conflict
Elites and Collective Protest
Toward a History of Revolution
State, Dependency, and Nationalism
Political Order in Changing Societies
The uses of controversy in sociology
The psychology of revolution.
Peasants, Politics and Revolution
Handbook of Organizations (RLE
Theory of collective behavior.
Preconditions of Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
The anatomy of revolution.
Rising expectations and political turmoil∗
Social Order, Reform and Revolution
The Rebellious Century
On the Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Struggles in the State
The Phenomenon of Revolution
Modern Revolutions, An Introduction to the Analysis of a Political Phenomenon
Armies and the Art of Revolution
The Study of Total Societies
Political Decay and the European Revolutions, 1789–1848
Reflections on Revolution
Iri
Patterns of Land Tenure, Division of Labor, and Voting Behavior in Europe
National Liberation
Theories of Revolution
The International Civil War
Violence and Social Change in the Yugoslav Revolution
Toward a Theory of Revolution
Revolution
On the Etiology of Internal Wars
Theories of Revolution in Contemporary Historiography
Rebellion, Revolution, and Armed Force
Rural Protest
A Test of a Partial Theory of Potential for Political Violence
The Sociology of Revolution
Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
A Psychological Theory of Revolutions
Toward a Comparative Study of Revolutions
Peasants and revolts
Theories of revolution reconsidered
| Unique citing works | 102 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,22 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2026 (47) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 100 |