Democracy Paradox Elizabeth Perry and Grzegorz Ekiert on State-Mobilized Movements
What we are doing in this volume is blurring the boundaries between this older conception of top-down mobilized movements and this newer conception of bottom-up organic, spontaneous civil society propelled movements and discovering that there's an awful lot in the middle there.
Elizabeth Perry
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements here.
Elizabeth Perry and Grzegorz Ekiert join the podcast to discuss their new book Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements (coedited with Xiaojun Yan). Elizabeth is the Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Grzegorz is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
Key Highlights
- What are state-mobilized movements?
- Why do authoritarian regimes mobilize supporters?
- The role of violence in state-mobilized movements
- Why do people mobilize to support dictators?
- What does it teach us about civil society?
Key Links
Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements edited by Grzegorz Ekiert, Elizabeth J. Perry, and Yan Xiaojun
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
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