We offer the first large scale, multiple source analysis of the outcome of what may be the
most extensive effort to selectively censor human expression ever implemented. To do this …

A growing body of research suggests that authoritarian regimes are responsive to societal
actors, but our understanding of the sources of authoritarian responsiveness remains limited …

The updated and expanded third edition of Tilly's widely acclaimed book brings this
analytical history of social movements fully up to date. Tilly and Wood cover such recent …

This article develops an interactive and relational conception of infrastructural state power
for studying the capacity of authoritarian regimes to absorb popular protests. Based on an …

The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in
Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China. After …

Protest event analysis is an important method for the study of collective action and social
movements and typically draws on traditional media reports as the data source. We …

In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, black women, especially poor black women,
are rarely considered leaders of social movements let alone political theorists. But in the …

When and why do people obey political authority when it runs against their own interests to
do so? This book is about the channels beyond direct repression through which China's …

The study of ideology in authoritarian regimes—of how public preferences are configured
and constrained—has received relatively little scholarly attention. Using data from a large …

Traditional analyses of political liberalization in China focus on elections or other facets of
democratization. But they cannot account for the fact that although China remains …