Why Men Rebel | 22.97 MB
Title: Why Men Rebel
Author: Gurr, Ted Robert;
Category: International Security, Foreign Legal Systems, Political Science
Language: English | 446 Pages | ISBN: 9781317248934
Do we really know so little about the causes of riot and rebellion that we must invoke contemporary exorcisms like “aggressive instincts” or “conspiracy” to explain them? It’s looking not. Men have rebelled against their rulers for millennia, and during those millennia many perceptive observers have offered careful explanations of why they did so, in particular instances and in general. In a way we know too much about our inclination to violence.
This book is an exercise in simplification of the kind known as theorybuilding. A general explanation of political violence can become a guide to action as well as comprehension, even if it is not ideally precise. It can be used to evaluate, for policy purposes, the “revolutionary potential” of specific nations, and to estimate the effects of various actions on that potential.
This book is as likely to be read by rebels as by rulers and suggests as many courses of effective action for one as the other.
