'COLOURED' REVOLUTION AS A POLITICAL PHENOMENON ('Koliorova' revolutsia yak politychnyi fenomen)

• Authors: Lane David
• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyses different forms of political change from putsch to revolution and contends that the 'coloured revolutions' were revolutionary coup d'etats. Conditions promoting and retarding the success of such movements are discussed and cases of 'decremental relative deprivation' are discovered which predisposed the public to insurgency. Conditions for success involve a united and organized opposition with an alternative ideology and political policy. It is contended that counter elites when in power neither carry out revolutions nor further democratic development. An unintended consequence of democracy promotion is that autocratic regimes learn to counter it and in so doing weaken genuine civil society associations.

Keywords

EN

COUNTER-ELITE; DEMOCRACY PROMOTION; INEQUALITY AND POLITICS.; REVOLUTION; REVOLUTIONARY COUP

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; http://www.i-soc.kiev.ua
• Journal: Sotsiolohiia: teoriia, metody, marketyng (Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing)
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 16-38
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lane David

• David Lane, Cambridge University, UK (for more information contact the journal editorial office, Institute of Sociology, NAS of Ukraine, vul. Shovkovychna 12, Kyiv, 01021, Ukraine)

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10UAAAAA086916