Introduction: understanding and explaining the Arab uprisings -- Acts, arenas and actors: framing the uprisings -- Routine authoritarian governance before the Arab uprisings: structuring the options for change -- Constructing impossible uprisings -- Redrawing contention and authoritarian practices -- Demobilization and reconstruction of the actors of the uprisings -- Conclusion: mobilization and demobilization in the North African uprisings.
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