Ruling by Other Means

State-Mobilized Movements

Grzegorz Ekiert, Elizabeth J. Perry, Xiaojun Yan

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781108478069
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108802994
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

What do states gain by sending citizens into the streets? Ruling by Other Means investigates this question through the lens of State-Mobilized Movements (SMMs), an umbrella concept that includes a range of (often covertly organized) collective actions intended to advance state interests. The SMMs research agenda departs significantly from that of classic social movement and contentious politics theory, focused on threats to the state from seemingly autonomous societal actors. Existing theories assume that the goal of popular protest is to voice societal grievances, represent oppressed groups, and challenge state authorities and other powerholders. The chapters in this volume show, however, that states themselves organize citizens (sometimes surreptitiously and even transnationally) to act collectively to advance state goals. Drawn from different historical periods and diverse geographical regions, these case studies expand and improve our understanding of social movements, civil society and state-society relations under authoritarian regimes.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 State-Mobilized Movements: A Research Agenda
• 2 Manufactured Ambiguity: Party-State Mobilization Strategy in the March 1968 Crisis in Poland
• 3 Suppressing Students in the People’s Republic of China: Proletarian State-Mobilized Movements in 1968 and 1989
• 4 State-Mobilized Community Development: The Case of Rural Taiwan
• 5 Enforcement Networks and Racial Contention in Civil Rights–Era Mississippi
• 6 Social Sources of Counterrevolution: State-Sponsored Contention during Revolutionary Episodes
• 7 Occupy Youth!: State-Mobilized Movements in the Putin Era (or, What Was Nashi and What Comes Next?)
• 8 State-Mobilized Movements after Annexation of Crimea: The Construction of Novorossiya
• 9 Mirroring Opposition Threats: The Logic of State Mobilization in Bolivarian Venezuela
• 10 Mobilizing against Change: Veteran Organizations as a Pivotal Political Actor
• 11 The Dynamics of State-Mobilized Movements: Insights from Egypt
• 12 State-Mobilized Campaign and the Prodemocracy Movement in Hong Kong, 2013–2015
• 13 The Resurrection of Lei Feng: Rebuilding the Chinese Party-State’s Infrastructure of Volunteer Mobilization
• Index