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The split elite thesis revisited: The case of the Serbian protest wave of 1988

This article revisits the venerable split elite thesis – which suggests that divisions in the elite are a key condition that makes revolutions possible – and presents it in refurbished form, as a mechanism connecting elites and masses in a process of “eventful history.” Such a mechanism takes the split elite from a static condition to an interactive process, as urged by the “dynamics of contention” approach, among others. The case at hand is 1980s Serbia, then part of multi-ethnic socialist Yugoslavia. Both quantitative and qualitative evidence show that protest events are connected with sessions of the communist party.

Split elite, eventful analysis, event catalogs, Serbia, Yugoslavia

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