عنوان

Iran's Situations: Military Violence, Protests, and Group Dynamics

Number

TL47977

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Iran's Situations: Military Violence, Protests, and Group Dynamics

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Sparsha Saha

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Simmons, Beth

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harvard University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

248

Text of Note

Committee members: Bas, Muhammet; Rosen, Stephen P.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-33530-9

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Government

Body granting the degree

Harvard University

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

Iran is a country with a rich history of successful social movements and not so successful ones. The two most recent ones-1979 and 2009-set up a very unique puzzle that sheds some light not only on the factors of micro-variation (in levels of violence against protesters) within states over time, but also on the factors that drive variation within a protest wave-factors that are related to the design of a state's security system (for example, multiple security force actors that provide options for protest policing). Explaining variation across and within these two cases requires that we think about the ensuing potential for violent conflict as inter-group related. In order to predict violence on protesters in Iran, it is necessary to measure the level of representativeness in the military organization, which I disaggregate at the level of the security force actor (Basij/IRGC/Artesh), and consider this in relation to the composition of the protesting crowd. The more representative a security force body within the military, the less likely is the outbreak of violence in any given protest event if that body is involved. This is because representative entities are less likely to view crowds as part of a threatening other.

Political science

Subject Term

Social sciences;Group dynamics;Iran;Military violence

Faradj, Hisseine

Simmons, Beth

Subdivision

Government

Harvard University

Call Number

1625428217; 3645055

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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