The events of the Arab Spring have suggested the necessity of rethinking the logic of
authoritarian persistence in the Arab world. However, the internal variation in regime …

In This Land Is Ours Now, Wendy Wolford presents an original framework for understanding
social mobilization. She argues that social movements are not the politically coherent …

Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-
society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Beginning in 2005 and running through the …

Scholarship on Syria has traditionally been limited by researchers' difficulty in accessing the
reflections of ordinary citizens due to their reluctance to speak about politics. The 2011 revolt …

An approach to modeling meme diffusion is proposed, drawing on insights from evolutionary
theory, information theory, meme theory, frame analysis, general systems theory, social …

A substantial intellectual movement has been growing in the social sciences around the
adoption of mechanism-and process-based explanations as complements to variable-based …

This book explores the anti-Islamic turn and expansion of the far right in Western Europe,
North America and beyond from 2001 and onwards. Driven by terror attacks and other moral …

What accounts for the spread of political protest and contention across countries? Analyzing
the wildfire of attempted revolutions in 1848, the present article assesses four causal …

Dual-process theories of morality are approaches to moral cognition that stress the varying
significance of emotion and deliberation in shaping judgments of action. Sociological …

Terrorism, mass uprisings, and political extremism are in the news every day. It is no
coincidence that these phenomena come together at the beginning of a new era. Radicals …