The Sociology of Political Crisis

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface to the English Edition
Chapter 1: The Continuity Hypothesis
	A Clausewitzian Perspective
	Departing from Objectivism
	Mobilizations and Moves
		The Strategic Dimension of Mobilizations
	What Is Wrong with the Instrumental View of Mobilizations
	Crises As Transformations of “Structures”
	A Comparative Design
Chapter 2: Three Illusions in the Study of Political Crises
	The Etiological Illusion
		The Etiological Posture
		The Theory of the J-Curve
		A Crude View of Causality
	The Natural History Illusion
		The Comparative Study of “Great Revolutions”
		The Logic of the “Regressive Method”
		Natural History, Historicism, and Common Sense
		Tree-Shape Variants
	The Heroic Illusion
		The Location of Choice and Decision
		Crises and Rational Choices
		How to Distinguish the Different Phases?
		Indifference to the Structural Aspects of Political Crises
Chapter 3: Mapping Complexity
	How Sectoral Logics Do Work
	The Capt