Goldstone

What are structural factors?

Factors affecting a historical event relating to things such as geography, demographics, politics, or economic.

They are deeply ingrained into the country and can be growing over years or decades.

What are transient factors?

Short term influences that cause the revolution to break out.

These are mainly events

What is goldstones claim?

He claims that many countries experience structural factors, and many countries experience transient factors, and both individually cause their own problems like rebellions. However, Goldstone claims that both factors need to be present in order to be a revolution

What are the five structural causes goldstone outlines

• A demographic change

• Shift in the pattern of international relations: War and international economic competition can weaken authorities and empower new groups in society.

• Uneven or dependent economic development

• New patterns of exclusion/discrimination:

• Evolution of personalist regimes

What are some of the transient factors Goldstone outlines

• Spikes in inflation; especially food prices

• Defeat in war

• Responses to protests

• Protests coming from ordinary people of society, changing views of protestors from extremists to focusing on the unjust regime