Volpi, Frédéric; Gerschewski, Johannes - In: Third World Quarterly 41 (2020) 6, pp. 1030-1045
In this article, we aim at sharpening common understandings of the notion of political crisis to better explain the trajectories of authoritarian transformations during popular uprisings. We make three major claims. First, we propose a definition of crisis as brief moments of institutional...