ABSTRACT
The introduction to this issue surveyed how starting points – regimes and uprisings against them – made some subsequent trajectories more likely than others. Thus, violent uprisings and state failure sharply narrowed democratization prospects, while relatively peaceful transitions widened them. However, as the subsequent chapters showed, agency – the struggle of rival social forces in the period after uprisings began – also contributed to outcomes. Such agency was itself affected by the political economy, cultural and international contexts. Together, starting points, subsequent agency and context shapeddivergent trajectories of post-uprising regime re-formation.
Agency
