Nesta reflexão propomos, usando a sociologia histórica, entrar numa área de estudo, no mínimo, controversa ou problemática – o estudo das revoluções. Esta temática, assustadora devido à sua densidade, espelha as sociedades passada, presente e futura. Através de diretrizes simple…
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The Contentious collective action and mobilization theories have had limited success in explaining why individuals mobilize for action in authoritarian societies. The theory of political inclusion provides a new perspective into a movement as a whole while remaining parsimonious…
This dissertation asks why authoritarian regimes are institutionalized in different ways and why they experience different outcomes. I have developed an elite conflict theory of authoritarianism and argue that how the distribution of power is institutionalized within a ruling co…
That revolutions come in waves is a commonly recognized feature of history, yet has been under theorized in the sociology of revolution. This dissertation argues that the solution to the puzzle of revolutionary waves lies in two aspects of revolution relatively neglected by prev…
Since the 1906 Constitutional Revolution that established the first representative government in the Middle East, all Iranian regimes have aimed to build a modern nation-state. But the main body of the literature depicts the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which resulted in the establi…
This research examines the revolution of 2010 in Tunisia due to thepaucity of empirical research on the subject and to resolve analytical problems that plague research on similar events. The research is based in both the cultural turn in social movement research and the state co…
This thesis offers an in-depth analysis into the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, two events that shocked the world. Two long-standing tyrants were deposed after just a few weeks of non-violent action. Two years later, both countries, now dominated by Islamists continue to exp…
What is the logic of political survival in revolutionary situations? This study expands on selectorate theory by seeking how ideological goals inform allocation decisions in revolutionary situations. Using the case of Mohammad Mosaddeq in Iran, I analyze the logic of political s…
This dissertation explores two intertwined topics of the Russian elites’ emotional culture at the turn of the 19th century and its role in the failed military revolution in December 1825. The unusual and tragic outcome of Russia’s first revolutionary attempt has long puzzled sch…
This dissertation examines the emergence of minimally invasive gallbladder removal, or laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Its rapid adoption is often referred to as the beginning of the “laparoscopic revolution” in general surgery. This alludes both …
Nothing to See Here: Stages for Latent Revolutions. In Genesis 2:7 (19822), God instructs Adam and Eve: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Genesis 1982:2). The Bible later st…
Technology and capitalism are intertwined in an historical and dialectical relationship. One aspect of technological advancement is that it allowed for more efficient and distant trade networks which ultimately allowed for the exchange of value to go beyond city walls--and event…
Esta tesis explora la intersección entre alfabetización, literatura popular, censura y culturas políticas disidentes en la España del siglo XIX, con atención especial al régimen de gobernación liberal conocido como el Período Isabelino. A través de un análisis de diversos autore…