Revolution is the forcible overthrow of a government through mass mobilisation (wether military or civilian or both) in the name of social justice, to create new political institutions

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Jack Goldstone

Jack A. Goldstone (PhD. Harvard) is Hazel Professor of Public Policy and a Fellow of the Mercatus Center of George Mason University. He is also a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (winner of the 1993 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association), and has authored or edited fifteen additional books and over 200 book chapters and journal articles on comparative history, political conflict and social change. Goldstone has won Fellowships from the J.S. Guggenheim, Carnegie and MacArthur Foundations, and has received the Myron Weiner Award for Scholarly Achievement from the International Studies Association and the Arnoldo Momigliano Award from the Historical Society.