Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition

Eitan Y Alimi is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and co-author of The Dynamics of Radicalization (2015).Avraham Sela is A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Family Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Mario Sznajder is Leon Blum Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• INTRODUCTIONPopular Contention, Regime, and Transition: A Comparative PerspectiveEitan Alimi PART I: BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND CONTENTION1. Modes of Coordination of Contentious Collective Action in the Middle-EastMario Diani and Caelum Moffatt2. Do Organizational Structures Matter for Protests in Non-Democratic African Countries?Katia Pilati3. Qualities of Democracy, Dissatisfaction and Contention in Latin America: The Role of Equality, Freedom and ResponsivenessMario Quaranta4. Regimes, Resources, and Regional Intervention: Understanding the Openings and Trajectories for Contention in the Middle East and North AfricaJack A. Goldstone PART II: PROCESSES AND TRAJECTORIES OF CONTENTION 5. The Drivers of Diffusion: Comparing 1989, the Color Revolutions and the Arab UprisingsValerie Bunce6. Double Legitimacy Crises and Dynamics of Contention in Ethnic DemocraciesGregory Maney7. When Repression Fails to Backfire: Movement's Powers, State's Power, and Conditions Conducive to International InterventionEitan Y. Alimi and David Meyer8. Understanding Dynamics, Endogeneity and Complexity in Protest Campaigns: A Comparative Analysis of Egypt (2011) and Iran (1977-1979)Karen Rasler PART III: BETWEEN TRANSITION AND CONTENTION 9. Regime Transitions, Anti-dictatorship Struggles, and the Future of Protest in Democratizing SettingsVincent Boudreau10. Chile's Winter of Discontent: Is Protest Achieving Deeper Democratization?Mario Sznajder11. The 2011 Israeli Protest Movement between the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement: A Hybrid Model?Gayil Talshir CONCLUSION The Arab Revolts in Comparative Historical Perspective Avraham Sela

"Using a comparative perspective, this book aims to determine what can be learned about Arab revolts by looking at global cycles of contention and what can be learned about contentious politics more broadly by looking at cycles of contention in the Middle East. Rather than solely studying the uprisings' causes, attention is given to the actual dynamics of the studied revolts. In doing so, it becomes clear that cycles of contention in democracies andauthoritarian regimes are not as different as one would expect." -- The Middle East Journal