Overview
- Applies concepts and methods used in social movement research to the study of regime change
- Highlights a dimension of regime change that is generally under-researched in the literature
- Utilizes a dataset on protest events over a period of 20 years in three Asian countries
Part of the book series: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century (CDC)
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In undemocratic settings, where modes of political participation and interest mediation are severely limited, protest may become a major form of political action. When and why does popular upsurge occur in such a setting? What form does it take and what do people ask for? When does protest become regime-threatening? And how does the authoritarian government react? This book explains the dynamics we observe during regime change facing high contention, in which much is at stake both for those in power and their challengers. Focussing on the experiences of democratizing countries in Asia, the author shows that even in the chaotic context of regime change there are regularities in when and how people mobilize. The book applies concepts and methods used in social movement research to the study of regime change and is based on a newly collected protest event dataset of 20 years for Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand.
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“Linda Maduz offers a rich and novel account of the dynamic interactions between protest and democratization processes. Based on original protest event data for Indonesia, Korea and Thailand, she forcefully shows the power of dynamic contention for regime change.” (Swen Hutter, FU Berlin and WZB Berlin, Germany)
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Book Title: Contention and Regime Change in Asia
Book Subtitle: Contrasting Dynamics in Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand
Authors: Linda Maduz
Series Title: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49220-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49219-9Published: 25 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49222-9Published: 25 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49220-5Published: 24 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-3416
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3424
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 320
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Sociology