Charles Tilly (born 1929) is a well known sociologist who has written a large number of books on the relationship between politics, economics and society. Tilly attended school at Harvard and Oxford before teaching at the University of Michigan and Columbia University, where he now resides. He is one sexy-ass mofo.-1... Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Politics Look up Politics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Politics (disambiguation) Democracy History of democracy List of democracy and elections-related topics List of years in politics List of politics by country articles Progressivism Progressive Logic Political corruption Political economy Political movement... Economics (from the Greek οίκος [oikos], house, and νομος [nomos], rule, hence household management) is a social science that studies the production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods and services. ... ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM or U of M) is a coeducational public research university in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ...
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Bibliography
From Mobilization to Revolution (1978)
Big Structures, Large Processes, and Huge Comparisons (1984)
The Contentious French (1986)
European Revolutions, 1492–1992 (1993)
Cities and the Rise of States in Europe, A.D. 1000 to 1800 (1994)
Roads from Past to Future (1997)
Work Under Capitalism (1998)
Durable Inequality (1998)
Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies (1998)
Tilly also rejects sequence explanations of the advance of democracy, for instance approaches (such as those of Georg Sørensen and Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan) that postulate the importance of distinct, causally interdependent stages, such as background preconditions, the exit from authoritarianism, transition to democracy, and democratic consolidation.
Tilly's thesis amounts to the claim that sufficient conditions, stages of history, variables and the like never produce democracy - that no democracy was ever created or defended or overthrown without the active intervention of people.
Tilly's definition is also too rigid to grasp a more fundamental problem: that contention-ridden processes of democratisation (and de-democratisation) are so thoroughly contingent in character that in principle no comprehensive explanation of democracy will ever be possible.
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