Radnitz, Scott B. <br/><br/>
Weapons of the Wealthy :  Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - Ithaca :  Cornell University Press,  2010.  ©2012. 
 - 1 online resource (249 pages) 
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<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Puzzles of People Power -- 1. Institutional Uncertainty and Elite-Led Mobilization -- 2.  The View from Below: Communities as Sites for Collective Action -- 3. The View from Above: State Influences on Elite Opportunities -- 4.  Linkages across Classes: The Development of Subversive Clientelism -- 5. Mobilization in Rural Kyrgyzstan -- 6. Elite Networks and the Tulip Revolution -- 7. Assessing the Dynamics of Mobilization in Diverse Contexts -- Conclusion: Political Economies, Hybrid Regimes, and Challenges to Democratization -- Methodological Appendix -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Focusing on the region of post-Soviet Central Asia, Radnitz investigates the causes of elite-led protest in nondemocratic states, where economic and political opportunities create elites who are independent of the regime, yet vulnerable to harassment. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801466175 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Kyrgyzstan -- Politics and government -- 21st century. Elite (Social sciences) -- Uzbekistan. Elite (Social sciences) -- Kyrgyzstan. Political participation -- Uzbekistan. Political participation -- Kyrgyzstan. Demonstrations -- Uzbekistan. Demonstrations -- Kyrgyzstan. 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Fernzugriff<br/>