At any given time in the world today, numerous movements, claiming to be revolutionary, may be struggling to go forward. Most of them will probably get nowhere. Why some succeed and others fail is the question to which Professor Dix addresses himself in this article. He argues that, more than any particular socioeconomic level which may be said to make a polity ripe for revolutionary change, a movement's ability to assemble a broad "negative" coalition of diverse domestic groups and foreign supporters, including elite groups and the middle class, may be essential for success.
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Robert H. Dix (1984) studied this question.