(cont.) Three mechanisms may be activated to expand mobilization beyond the local level:
demonstration, in which people receive information of an event through an impersonal …

With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central
Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical …

The study of mass contentious politics in Southeast Asia has accumulated significant
knowledge over the last 40 years. This politics is instructive because it presents distinctive …

Over the past decade popular uprisings have led to the ousting of authoritarian regimes in
post-communist Eurasia and more recently in North Africa and the Middle East. Democratic …

Demonstrating the limitations of existing conceptual approaches in accounting for activism in
Asia, the book also offers new understandings of authoritarian governance practices and …

Over the course of our program, in face-to-face seminars and through electronic
communication, we discussed different views and approaches to conflict structure and …

This article answers the question of why Central Asia studies has not contributed more fully
to the study of comparative politics since the collapse of the Soviet Union. It argues that …

This chapter introduces the reader to a variety of authoritarian discourses and practices in
Central Asia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. With the partial exception of Kyrgyzstan …

Divided societies have long been seen as terrible terrain for democracy. Yet some countries
in South and Southeast Asia have managed to overcome ethnic and religious rifts and …

Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have
proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without …