Defronzo Terms Flashcards
Mass Frustration
Societies expectations are higher than what’s delivered
Dissident Elites
If elites turn against leader, revolution has a good chance
Unifying Motivations
Has to be unifying enough to transverse class structure
Severe Political Crisis
Anything that puts the existing government in a position of weakness
Permissive World Context
Other countries allow revolution to happen
Relative Deprevation
Societies expectations are higher than what’s delivered
Supporting Intellectuals Turn
Intellectuals who supported the regime side with revoltuionaries
Old Regime Tries To Save Itself With Reforms
Too little too late, weakness, spurs the revolution
Revolutionary Alliance Takes Over But Is Torn By Conflict
Self explanatory
First Post-Revolutionary Government Is Moderate
Idealistic leaders take over
Moderates Fail And Radicals Take Control
Moderates can’t accomplish revolutionary goals and radicals take control
Extreme Radicals
Become too radical and use extreme methods
Radicals Replaced
Radicals prove to be too radical and are replaced by moderates
Marxist Theory of Revolution
Proletariat is exploited by government and employers, turn everything over to the workers, people are made aware of grievances, they overthrow the government, and then government withers away
Major problems: Don’t usually have unifying motivations and permissive world context
Frustration-Aggression Theory of Revoltion
Build up to frustration to a certain point which bursts out in violence and aggression, popular revolution, ie children want cool toys but when they get the toys they destroy them
Major problems: Don’t usually have unifying motivation, i and permissive world context
Systems Theory of Revolution
Individuals become used to status quos, systems stops working and people want it back the way it was
Major Problems: Don’t usually have unifying motivations and permissive world context
Modernization Theory of Revolution
Technological change can cause revolutionary change, machines putting people out of jobs, cloth workers of London in 19th/20th century, those holding state power unable to meet demands of group mobilized by modernization
Modern Structural Theory
Similar to systems, certain structures limit our ability to be individuals, if some of these systems become to extreme, people will have a revolution
