The threat of revolution compels elites to concede institutional change

Evidence

Intuitively, the threat of a worse institutional outcome, such as a revolution, motivates the current elite (powerholders) to undertake institutional change as the lesser of two evils. — Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov, and Konstantin Sonin, Institutional Change and Institutional…, 437

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Acemoglu and Robinson’s democratization theory and Barrington Moore’s arguments about revolution. — connects to: Mobilised popular bases, not party platforms, are what threaten elite power — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1783