The Rebel's Dilemma. (book reviews)

Anthony J. Gill, University of Washington

In The Rebel's Dilemma, Mark Irving Lichbach presents a tour de force of the collective action research agenda with regards to the study of dissent, rebellion, and revolution. His book is monumental and pivotal, but not because it reveals any new theoretical insights or explains a particularly vexing empirical anomaly. Rather, it consolidates over three decades of research on collective action problems and sets the agenda for future studies of collective dissent and rebellion.

Lichbach starts by segmenting the study of collective dissent into ...

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