Collective Action, Conflict, and Political Change from a Historical Perspective

Session Submission Type: Full Submitted Panel

Session Description

The panel gathers a set of papers examining the effects of political mobilization on political change and the other way around. Two papers consider the political and organizational variables behind the extension of the franchise to women (in Catalonia and Norway). A third paper deals with the impact of war mobilization on the likelihood of engaging in revolutionary action (in France). The fourth paper models the secular interaction between growth and democratization. All papers exploit historical material – at the macro and/or micro level – over the last two centuries.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 11: COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Individual Presentations

• Learning Democracy - Sergio Montero, University of Rochester

• From Women's Enfranchisement to Female's Participation - Jordi Munoz, University of Barcelona

• Marching Towards the Bastille: Political Crises in the Aftermath of War - Saumitra Jha, Stanford University; Steven I. Wilkinson, Yale University

• Petitioning and the Mass Mobilization of Women - Oyvind Skorge, Harvard

Chair

• Carles Boix Princeton University

Discussant

• Didac Queralt Yale University