This paper aims to explore how under authoritarian regimes, undergoing reform processes, divergent forms of environmental activism may emerge. Two severe cases degradation serve as our starting points: the marine disaster in central coast Vietnam 2016 and Mekong Delta's ongoing degradation. While former offers a case rural grievances over mass fish death Central triggering protests on national ...

Terrorism poses a significant challenge to societies worldwide, employing various social strategies achieve political objectives, disseminate ideologies, and recruit new members. This article explores the utilized by terrorist organizations, focusing on radicalization, propaganda dissemination, support network formation, exploitation of cleavages, role charismatic leaders, use intimidation crea...

Corporations use social media to build online communities, in order to create and maintain product loyalty and source new product ideas. Community members discuss the corporation’s products, services, or practices. Topics range from suggestions for products, enhancements, or services. Users communicate their grievances to each other and the company, hoping to garner support and change. Posted m...

Greed, grievances, and mobilization are generally offered as explanations for rebellion and civil war. The authors extend arguments about the precursors to nonviolent protest, violent rebellion, and civil war. These arguments motivate a series of hypotheses that are tested against data from the Minorities at Risk project. The results of the analysis suggest, first, that the factors that predict...

Over the past six years, Holston United Methodist Home for Children in Greeneville, TN, has made a concerted effort to change its culture of care and philosophy of treatment. A restraint reduction effort began in 1998, and a Treatment Model Task Force was created in 1999 in order to move the agency from a strict behavior modification treatment modality to one that focused upon establishing heal...

To date, there is little in the way of theorizing or empirical work on the imagined endpoint of political action aimed at social change – the type of “dream” those engaged in action are attempting to bring into fruition. We suggest that previous approaches have focused narrowly on one type of social change – amelioration of collective grievances. In contrast, we argue that social change is much...

Abstract In October 2020 the world witnessed third sudden change of power in Kyrgyzstan since its independence. 2005, 2010 and repeated mass protests led to violent fall political regimes Akaev, Bakiev Zheenbekov. Although these events were more or less similar terms conditions contributing protests, they different way elites viewed by protesters. The aim this contribution is critically analyse...

Patient satisfaction is an integral part of assessing the quality of oral health care. As dental care becomes more impersonal, competitive, and expensive, the potential for patient complaints is on the rise. Dental school clinics may be more vulnerable to patient grievances due to inexperienced student providers, less efficient delivery of care, challenges related to continuity of care, and the...

What might have caused the post-2007 election violence in Kenya? Was it election irregularities as widely claimed or could it have been simmering ethnicrivalries waiting to spill over? While not directly focusing on the post-election violence, we investigate a number of issues that divided Kenyans in the 2007 Presidential election. Following a rational choice framework and using survey data of ...