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The Cross-National Analysis of of Resource Mobilization Theory

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Mohammadreza Taleban
Associate Professor of Sociology of the Revolution, Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution Research Institute, Tehran. Iran
10.22034/fademo.2023.387304.1000
Abstract
This article presents a cross-national analysis for empirically testing the theory of resource mobilization to explain political violence. According to the original formulation of the resource mobilization theory, if dissatisfied people remain unorganized and without resources; and if the rulers can raise the costs of insurgent actions to a sufficient level, failure and widespread dissatisfaction can never lead to political violence alone. In order to make this theory testable, several stages of reasoning were established until finally this hypothesis was formulated as a representation of the theory of resource mobilization that regime repression has a non-linear or curvilinear relationship with political violence. In order to verify the empirical validity of this theory, the aforementioned hypothesis was confronted with secondary data from 147 countries in order to evaluate the degree of conformity and correspondence of the prediction of the resource mobilization theory with empirical evidence. In sum, the findings of this research were able to obtain serious and reliable support for the resource mobilization theory in explaining the cross-national variance of political violence.
Keywords
Political Violence
Regime Repression
Resource Mobilization Theory
Cross-National Analysis
Political Rights
Civil Liberties
Subjects

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The Revolutionary Research
Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
August 2023
Pages 161-186

  • Receive Date 26 May 2023
  • Revise Date 24 July 2023
  • Accept Date 23 June 2023