Vanguards in revolution

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Shadmehr, Mehdi; Bernhardt, Dan
• 署名单位: University of Chicago; University of Calgary; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of Warwick
• 刊物名称: GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0899-8256
• DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2019.01.007
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 146-166
• 关键词: Vanguard; revolution; Radicalism; coercion; COORDINATION; learning; option to delay

摘要

Revolutionary vanguards, their radicalism and coercive actions, and their interactions with ordinary citizens and the state are common threads in narratives of revolutionary movements. But what are the defining features of revolutionary vanguards? The literature is replete with terms that allude to some notion of a revolutionary vanguard (e.g., revolutionary entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs of violence, early -risers), but the essence of these conceptions and their implications for revolutionary process remain obscure. We identify and differentiate the two main notions of vanguards, the Leninist and early riser notions, and develop a formal framework that captures their distinguishing features, deriving their implications for the likelihood of revolution. We then use this framework to study three related and overlooked topics: (a) state strategies in mitigating the vanguard's influence on citizens; (b) citizens' preferences for the degree of vanguard radicalism; and (c) the vanguards' use of coercion against citizens. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.