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A (not-too-much) provocative and extremely interesting article by @jayjamescarter on @supchinanews. A comparison between #Trump's and Mao Zedong's followers' actions, twisted around #CapitolHill and the beginning of the Cultural Revolution
A thread
https://supchina.com/2021/01/13/bombard-the-headquarters/
A thread
https://supchina.com/2021/01/13/bombard-the-headquarters/
The blurring of the lines between 1) political regimes, 2) leaders' personalities, and 3) their supporters' actions glimpse the complexity politics is unfolding in most recent years.
3 books are helpful to sort out this apparent chaotic stage of politics
3 books are helpful to sort out this apparent chaotic stage of politics
Norris and Inglehart (2019) describe the so-called "authoritarian #populism" as anti-establishment leaders stirring the masses with their speeches/actions to gather enough power to erode the existing institutional #legitimacy https://www.pippanorris.com/cultural-backlash-1
i.e.:
i.e.:
Mattingly (2019) reports how civil society's control by central #power in autocracies helps to shape a non-contentious active society (≠ curbing socio-political action). Loyal civilians strengthen ruling actor's power through their actions
i.e.:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/art-of-political-control-in-china/4FE177A409064E67DBB3D5A08081F80A
i.e.:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/art-of-political-control-in-china/4FE177A409064E67DBB3D5A08081F80A
The relation entangles even more when 4) State's interests are taken into consideration. Ekiert, Perry, Yan (2020) explore the so-called "State-Mobilized Movements" or: how a State sponsors specific collective actions to its own benefit
i.e.
https://www.cambridge.org/it/academic/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/ruling-other-means-state-mobilized-movements?format=PB
i.e.
https://www.cambridge.org/it/academic/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/ruling-other-means-state-mobilized-movements?format=PB
Far from being only provocative, this article communicates:
1. Diachronic comparison is helpful to think about our future
2. Cross-regime cases might be more useful than we expect
3. Dichotomy democracy-autocracy remains useful, yet seriously limiting
1. Diachronic comparison is helpful to think about our future
2. Cross-regime cases might be more useful than we expect
3. Dichotomy democracy-autocracy remains useful, yet seriously limiting
