Revolutionary outcomes can occur without revolutionary situations via five pathways

Evidence

Historically, revolutionary outcomes have occurred without revolutionary situations chiefly in the course of five situations: (1) conquest of an existing state by another very different state; (2) a general war’s settlement; (3) intervention of powerful outsiders in national politics; (4) a ruler’s sudden, deliberate, and thorough top-down reorganization of power; and (5) a dominant class coalition’s withdrawal of support from a state (Bermeo 2003; Bueno de Mesquita, Siverson, and Woller 1992; Lupher 1996; Mason 2004; Tilly 1992, 1993, 2004b; Trimberger 1978). — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 986

Categorization

  • corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 986
  • XREF: connects to: Revolutionary situations recur often but rarely become outcomes; Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126

Broader Connections