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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      June 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511812125
      9780521620697
      9780521629485
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511812125
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.8kg, 428 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.637kg, 428 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Asian Studies, South-East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Asian Studies, South-East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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    No Other Way Out provides a powerful explanation for the emergence of popular revolutionary movements, and the occurrence of actual revolutions, during the Cold War era. This sweeping study ranges from Southeast Asia in the 1940s and 1950s to Central America in the 1970s and 1980s and Eastern Europe in 1989. Following in the 'state-centered' tradition of Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions and Jack Goldstone's Revolutions and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, Goodwin demonstrates how the actions of specific types of authoritarian regimes unwittingly channeled popular resistance into radical and often violent directions. Revolution became the 'only way out', to use Trotsky's formulation, for the opponents of these intransigent regimes. By comparing the historical trajectories of more than a dozen countries, Goodwin also shows how revolutionaries were sometimes able to create, and not simply exploit, opportunities for seizing state power.

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    ‘Jeff Goodwin’s No Other Way Out is an outstanding contribution to the sociology of revolutions. It goes beyond the work of his mentor, Theda Skocpol, and will have a profound impact on the literature for years to come.’

    Misagh Parsa - Dartmouth College (Electronic newsletter of the ECPR-SG on Extremism and Democracy)

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