Students and Scholars as agents of coercive force in the populist and (resurging) authoritarian states
The Existing ‘Mis-Perception’ Since the ‘third wave’ of democratization, beginning in the mid-1970s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, both scholars and political commentators focused on student activism as drivers of democratic transitions. Among development practitioners, higher education is considered vital for expanding middle classes, which are still seen as a catch-all …
