Political Science 663 R.A. Francisco

10:00 MWF Fall 2010, 109 Blake

Protest and Revolution

The course covers the interaction of political dissidents and the state. It focuses on the process and strategy of conflict between these two parties and among rebel groups. Major emphasis is on the collective action problem of mobilizing rebels; repression of rebels by the state and its effect on rebellion; changing tactics to elude harm; terror as adaptive protest; post-revolutionary regime transition and civil war. Along the way we will cover 14 examples of historical and modern rebellions and revolutions. We both draw insights from these examples as well as apply propositions to them to test their validity.

Office Hours

Conducted in 313 Blake on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:00 to 10:00 and Mondays from 1:50-3:30 as well as by appointment. For an appointment, see or call me (864-9023). You may reach me by e-mail at ronfran@ku.edu. This syllabus and a list of books for the research paper are also on my home page (http://web.ku.edu/ronfran/). Click on “protest bibliography”.

Text and Readings

James DeFronzo. Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements. Boulder: Westview, 2007.

Also purchase a packet of chapters from Jack A. Goldstone, Ted R. Gurr, and Farrokh Moshiri. Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century. Boulder: Westview, 1991. The book is out of print, so the relevant chapters have been photocopied and are available in the Political Science office (504 Blake).

Recommended readings appear in italics. They are not required.

Note that the required readings are clustered principally about the real revolution and rebellion lectures. No text exists at this level that reflects the way that this course is taught. My method is based on recent research, too recent to bring its innovation into a textbook. Therefore class attendance is important.

Examinations and Grading

There will be three in-class examinations of the short essay/identification type. Two of these occur during the semester, with one in the final examination period. Anyone who cannot be there on 15 December for the third exam should drop the course. Each examination is worth 25 percent of the final grade. The research paper constitutes the final 25 percent. Graduate students in political science are exempted from the third examination. Research papers constitute 50 percent of graduate student grades. Any student with a disability that affects test writing and note taking should notify me for accommodation.

Research Assignment

Choose a real historical conflict and study it. Select one from the list I provide or convince me to let you pursue your favorite conflict. First write a narrative history, i.e., trace it over time. Note who fought whom, why they fought, how the rebels mobilized more people, what the state did in response, and how the conflict evolved and was resolved. Then develop a section to the paper analyzing the conflict, using the propositions and solution groups you obtain from the course, e.g., what were the relative strategies of the rebel group and the state as the conflict evolved? Include a chronology and attempt to note (1) how many people were mobilized on each date of protest or interaction; (2) how many police, troops, or supporters the state mobilized against the protesters; (3) the casualties (including arrests and executions) suffered by each side; and (4) the outcome (what happened?). Do not use the discredited conjectures we present in this course, e.g., Gurr, Tilly and Skocpol. Due Wednesday, 8 December at 4:00 pm. Late papers lose one letter grade per day.

F 20 August Organizational Meeting

Introduction

M 23 August Traditional Study of Revolutions vs. Modern Analysis

DeFronzo, Chapter 1

Goldstone, pp. 4-20.

Related music: Indigo Girls, “Dear Mr. President”; Sheryl Crow, “Out of Our Heads”

W 25 August Jan Revolution 1: Russia, 1917

DeFronzo, pp. 33-55.

Theories of Protest and Coercion

F 27 August The Relative Deprivation Explanation of Protest

Goldstone, pp. 20-23.

Ted Robert Gurr, Why Men Rebel, 1970

James B. Rule, Theories of Civil Violence, 1988, Chapter 7

Related music: Los Lobos, “Will the World Survive”; Billy Joel, “Allentown”; Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the U.S.A.”; Sarah McLachlan, “Shelter”; Laura Love, “I’m Givin’ Way”; Rage Against the Machine, “Down Rodeo”

M 30 August The Resource Mobilization Challenge

Goldstone, pp. 23-26.

Charles Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution, 1978

James B. Rule, Theories of Civil Violence, 1988, Chapter 6

W 1 September The Structural Theory of Revolution: Peasants Monitor Commodity Prices!

Goldstone, pp. 26-36.

Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions, 1979

Alexander J. Motyl, “Concepts and Skocpol: Ambiguity and Vagueness in the Study of Revolution.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 4:1 (January 1992): 93-112.

F 3 September Why Rebel? The Collective Action Problem

Mark I. Lichbach, The Rebel’s Dilemma, 1995, Chapters 1 and 2.

Related music: Tracy Chapman, “Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution”

M 6 September Labor Day: No class

W 8 September Solutions to the Rebel’s Dilemma

Mark I. Lichbach, The Rebel’s Dilemma, 1995, Chapters 3-6.

Related music: Phil Ochs, “Ringing of Revolution”

Context and Protest

F 10 September Revolution 2: China, 1948

DeFronzo, Chapter 3

M 13 September Autocracy vs. Democracy

Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, 1966

Related music: Elvis Costello, “What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding?”; Bob Dylan, “Oxford Town”; Dion, “Abraham, Martin and John”; Tim Hardin, “A Simple Song of Freedom”; U2, “Mothers of the Disappeared”; Sinaed O’Connor, “Black Boys on Mopeds”; Pearl Jam, “W.M.A.”

Repressing Dissent

W 15 September Revolution 3: Iran, 1979

DeFronzo, Chapter 7.

F 17 September Threaten and Use Violence

Karen Rasler, “Concessions, Repression, and Political Protest in the Iranian Revolution.” American Sociological Review 61 (September 1996): 132-152.

Related music: Kim & Reggie Harris, “Those Three are on my Mind”; Arlo Guthrie, “1913 Massacre”; Phil Ochs, “Here’s to the State of Mississippi”.

M 20 September Threaten and Use Economic and Psychological Repression

Related music: Joan Baez, “The Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti”.

W 22 September Rebellion 1: Chiapas in Mexico, 1994-1995

Related music: Paul Revere & the Raiders, “Indian Reservation”.

F 24 September First Examination

Overcoming Repression

M 27 September Revolution 4: Eastern Europe, 1989

DeFronzo, pp. 55-82.

Related music: Scorpions, “Winds of Change”.

W 29 September Leadership

Related music: Beatles, “Come Together”; Bebe Winans, “I Have a Dream”.

F 1 October Clandestine Mobilization and Power in Numbers

James DeNardo, Power in Numbers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985

M 4 October. Patrons at Home and Abroad

W 6 October Revolution 5: Philippines, 1986

Goldstone, Chapter 9.

F 8 October Adaptation and Coevolution

M 11 October Yugoslav Civil Wars

W 13 October Rebellion 2: Northern Ireland, 1968-2003

Related music: The Cranberries, “Zombie”; Bap Kennedy, “Shankhill to the Falls”; Judy Collins, “The Patriot Game”; The Dubliners, “A Nation Once Again; Wild Colonial Bhoys, “Fields of Athenry”; The Wolf Tones, “Follow Me Up to Carlow”; The Clancy Brothers, “Four Green Fields”; Sinead O’Connor, “Famine” and “4 My Love”; and of course U2, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”

F 15 October Fall Break: no class

M 18 October Terror

DeFronzo, Chapter 8

Related music: Bruce Springsteen, “The Rising”; Sheryl Crow, “God Bless this Mess”

W 20 October Rebellion 3: Palestinian Intifada I, 1987-1994

Goldstone, Chapter 13.

F 22 October After the Massacre: Mobilization in the Wake of Harsh Repression

Related music: U2, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”; Dixie Chicks, “Not Ready to Make Nice”; Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, “Fireflies”

M 25 October Riots as Political Protest

Related music: Ice Cube, “Black Korea”; Gordon Lightfoot, “Black Day in July”

W 27 October Why are Revolutions “Stable”?

Related music: Beatles, “Revolution”; Tom Lehrer, “New Math”

F 29 October Second Examination

M 1 November Revolution 6: Cuba, 1959

DeFronzo, Chapter 5

Related music: Jon Secada, “I’m Free”; Don Henley, “All She Wants to Do is Dance”; Carlos Puebla, “Hasta Siempre”

Stalemate

W 3 November Revolution 7: Afghanistan, 1979-1996

Goldstone, Chapter 8.

Related music: U2, “Bullet the Blue Sky”

F 5 November Civil War

Roy Licklider, “The Consequences of Negotiated Settlements in Civil Wars, 1945-1993.” American Political Science Review 89:3 (September 1995): 681-690.

Related music: Peter, Paul and Mary, “El Salvador”; Sheryl Crow, “Peace Be Upon Us”; The Cranberries, “War Child”

M 8 November Partition/1968

W 10 November Rebellion 4: 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention (video)

Related music: Chicago Transit Authority (Chicago), “Someday (August 29, 1968)”

Revolution and Regime Transition

F 12 November Revolution 7: Vietnam, 1946-1975

DeFronzo, Chapter 4.

Related music: CCR, “Who’ll Stop the Rain?”; Phil Ochs, “Draft Dodger Rag”; Joan Baez/Judy Collins, “Song for David”; Jimmy Cliff, “Vietnam”; Simon & Garfunkel, “Silent Night, 7:00 News”

M 15 November Revolution 8: Nicaragua, 1979

DeFronzo, Chapter 6.

Related music: U2, “Pride in the Name of Love”; Jackson Browne, “Life in the Balance”

W 17 November Institutional Design

F 19 November Revolution 9: South Africa, 1984-1994

DeFronzo, Chapter 9

Related music: Tom Paxton, “The Death of Stephen Biko”; Paul Simon, “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes”; Special AKA, “Free Nelson Mandela”; Johnny Clegg and Savuka, “One Man One Vote”; Peter Gabriel, “Biko”; U2 “Silver and Gold”

M 22 November Pacted Democratization

Guiseppe DiPalma, To Craft Democracies: An Essay on Democratic Transitions, 1991.

W 24 November Thanksgiving: No class

F 26 November Thanksgiving: No class

M 29 November The Problem of the Military

Related music: Buffy St. Marie, “Universal Soldier”; Phil Ochs/Arlo Guthrie, “I Ain’t Marching Anymore”

W 1 December The Politics of Economic Restructuring

F 3 December Consolidation: Rebels become Regime

M 6 December Research and Writing Day: No Class

W 8 December Protests, Revolutions, and Outcomes: Toward an Integrated Theory

DeFronzo, Chapter 10/ Research Papers due, 4:00 pm

W 15 December Third Examination, 8:30 am

Research Paper Topics

Revolutions

Protest and Rebellion

Algerian rising in Kablye (1871-1873)

Algerian rising in Sétif (5/8/1945)

Algiers riot (105/1980-10/8/1980)

Armristar (India) massacre (1919)

Austrian worker rising (1927 or 2/12/1934)

Bavarian November rebellion (1918-1919)

Belgian riots (1830)

Biafran rebellion (Nigeria, 1967-1970)

Black Panther Party (1966-1974)

Boxer rebellion in China (1898-1900)

Centralia, Missouri confederate massacre (1864)

Chechan conflict in Russia

Chicago Democratic Convention (1968)

Chicago Haymarket Massacre (1886)

Chicago race riot (1919)

Chinese student rebellion (1989)

Colfax, La. massacre (8/13/1873)

Columbia University occupation (1968)

Czech Prague Spring rebellion (1968)

Czech Charter 77 movement (1977-1989)

Dutch rebellion against Napoleon (1811-1813)

East German rising (1953)

Eldora dos Carajás, Pará, Brazil massacre (1996)

El Mozote massacre (12/11/1981)

El Salvador civil war (1975-1992)

El Salvador massacre (2/28/1977)

Elaine, Arkansas race riot (1919)

English rising (1381)

French May events (1968)

The Fronde (France, 1648-1653)

Gary, IN riot (7/25/1968)

German Liebknecht/Luxemburg rebellion (1919)

Glenville, OH riot (7/23-25/1968)

Gordon (UK anti-Catholic) riot (1780)

Guinea-Bissau guerrilla war against Portugal (1960s)

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot (1605)

Haitian slave rebellion (1791)

Harvard University occupation (1969 & 2001)

Haymarket riot (Chicago, 1886)

Homestead strike (Pennsylvania, 1892)

Hungarian uprising (1956)

Huk, Philippines (1946-1948)

Irish rising (1798, 1867 or 1916)

Israeli army massacre in Dweima (10/28/1948)

Jack Cade’s rebellion (15^th century, UK)

Jamaican freedmen rising (1865)

John Brown’s seizure of Harper’s Ferry (10/16/1859)

Kent State protest & killing (1970)

King Phillip’s War or the Matacomet rebellion (1675-1676)

Kronstadt (USSR) sailor rising (2/28/1921)

Kwangju, S. Korea student massacre (1980)

Levellers (UK, 17^th century)

Liberian civil war (1990-1993)

Liberty City, FL riot (8/8/1968)

Luddite riots, UK (1811-1816)

Managua, Nicaragua election massacre (1967)

Mexico City student massacre (1968)

Mexican (Chiapas) rebellion (1994-1996)

Molly Maguires (1877)

Munich Bierkeller Putsch (1923)

New York draft riots (1863)

Northern Ireland rebellion (1968-1996)

Omaha, NE race riot (March 1968)

Orangeburg, SC massacre (1968)

Palestinian Intifada (1987-1994)

Palestinian Intifada II (2000-2001)

Paris commune (1871)

Philadelphia MOVE (1985)

Pilgrimage of Grace (Yorkshire, UK 1536)

Port Arthur massacre by Japanese (1894)

Pullman strike (Chicago, 1894)

Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, KS (1863)

Red Week in Italy (June 7-14, 1914)

Roses, War of in the UK (15^th century)

Russian civil war (1917-1921)

San Salvador cathedral massacre (1979)

Sandino insurrection in Nicaragua (1927-1933)

Satsuma samurai rising (1877)

Seattle WTO anti-globalization protest (2000)

Shay’s rebellion (1786-1787)

Slachtenek rebellion in South Africa (1815)

Solidarity (Poland) (1980-1981)

South African campaign (1950-1994)

Southern (US) rifle clubs (1870s)

Southhampton, VA (Nat Turner) slave rebellion (1831)

Soweto massacre (1976)

Spanish civil war (1931-1939)

Spartakus rising in Berlin (1918-1919)

Springfield, IL race riot (1908)

Stonewall gay rising, NY (1969)

Taiping rebellion in China (1848-1865)

Tamil rebellion in Sri Lanka (1980s-present)

Tepehuan Revolt (Mexico, 1616-1620)

U.S. anti-Vietnam War campaign (1965-1974)

U.S. Civil Rights movement (1960s)

U.S. Militia movement (1990s)

U.S. Suffrage movement (1890s-1919)

USSR peasant Tambov rising (2/2/1921)

Vienna Black Friday (1927)

Yugoslavia civil wars (1991-1995)

Wales rail strikes (1911)

Warsaw uprising (1943)

Warsaw rising (1944)

Whiskey rebellion (1794)

Zimbabwe campaign (1957-1980)