Comparative Politics and the Arab Uprisings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6160793 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jillian Schwedler (0000-0003-1829-9138, City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 141-152 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle East Law and Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1876-3367 • E-ISSN: 1876-3375 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18763375-00701007 |
| OpenAlex | W1965481787 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 6 |
How have scholars working in the political science subfield of comparative politics approached the Arab uprisings in their analyses? Two dominant trends have been to explore the uprisings through the literatures on robust authoritarianism and on social movements. While each of these has produced rich and lively debates, scholars of Middle East politics have mostly drawn comparisons at the national level: for example, explaining variation between those state that experienced uprisings and those that did not, or between those uprisings that turned violent and those that did not. I suggest that adopting “states” and “movements” as objects of analysis can obscure some of the more unique dynamics of the uprisings—dynamics that might be leveraged in contributing new ideas to broader theoretical debates. I illustrate the ways in which research designs that focus on identifying and explaining variation between and across cases tend to assume discrete objects of study (i.e., regimes and movements) in ways that obscure other fascinating processes and practices at both the micro-level and in terms of the complex interconnections across states and regions. This focus has in turn led to a deficit in studies of in-case variation: how mobilization and state repression varied, for example, between Cairo, Alexandria, the Suez, rural regions, and other locations outside of Tahrir Square. Finally, I applaud and encourage the continuation of the lively and open debates within the field about the strengths and weaknesses of our earlier scholarship and the potential of various future research agendas
Authoritarianism · Comparative politics · Contentious politics · Democracy · Middle East · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Variation (astronomy · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Turkey's Politics and Society
Theorising the violence-resistance-nexus in the context of Gaza
Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings
Go local, go global
Taking stock of Mena political science after the uprisings
Mena political science research a decade after the Arab uprisings
Making Sense of the Politics of the Egyptian Revolution in and through Popular Culture
Multiparty Cabinets and Coalition Governance in the Arab Middle East and North Africa
Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey
The Arab Spring
Strategies for Reviving the International Relations/Middle East Nexus after the Arab Uprisings
Mapping methodological nationalism in Middle Eastern studies
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |