The Entropy of Victory: Where Will Power Come From?

When an Ancien regime is overthrown, "everyone's brain immediately remaps everything," he says. These geographic divisions then feed into one of the great post-revolutionary political questions: where will power now reside? There will be those who think it vital and necessary to have a centralized authority, writes Julian Zelizer. On the other side, there will be people who think the whole point to the revolution was to break such centralized power, he adds.