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Author_Merouan Mekouar
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Fathi Terbil
Foreign Satellite Channels
Gaddafi's Policies
Informational Cascade
Inter-elite Bargaining
Intermediate Actors
Local Informational Cascade
Local Intermediate Actors
Military Junta
Omar Radi
Ould Ahmed Salem
Prodemocracy Activists
Saif Al Islam Gaddafi
Sidi Bouzid
Successful Informational Cascade
Trigger Mass Mobilization
Weak Tie Connections
Western Sahara
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781472459305
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Mar 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Why and how do some acts of protest trigger mass mobilization while others do not? Using the cases of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, Mekouar argues that successful mass mobilization is the result of a surprise factor, whose impact and exceptionality is amplified by the presence of influential political agents during the early phase of protest, as well as by regime violence and unusual media coverage. Together this study argues that these factors create a perception of exceptionality, which breaks the locally available cognitive heuristic originally in favor of the regime, and thus creates the necessary conditions for mobilization to occur. This book provides a unique dialectical picture of mobilization in North Africa by focusing both on the perspective of those who mobilized against their local regimes and members of the security forces who were responsible for stopping them. Moreover, it offers a first-hand account of the tumultuous days preceding authoritarian collapse and explains the mechanisms through which political change occurs.
Merouan Mekouar is a political scientist and professor of International Development Studies at York University and a senior fellow at the inter-university consortium of Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at McGill University. He works on social movements and authoritarian collapse in North Africa and the Middle East.
