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PLSC 4342

Questions for Country Case Studies

1. Who were the main revolutionary actors/power blocs?

2. What was the nature of society? What was the social and economic environment?

3. What was the nature of economic and political development?

4. What were the factors of state/govt. delegitimation?

5. What were the factors of state legitimacy and strength?

6. What were some of the revolutionary preconditions (intellectual, political, ecoomic, social)?

7. What were the precipitants to revolution?

8. What was the nature of revolutionary change (what social arrangements and social habits changed)?

9. Which of the theories of revolution fit events best?

10. Why did the revolution occur?

11. What were the events--what happened during this revolution?