A Logistic Diffusion Model of Political Mobilization

In: Political behavior, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 7-30

Abstract

Some useful simplification of the theory of political mobilization is achieved by treating the ideology of a mobilizing agent as an innovation. The process of political mobilization is then treated as a process of innovation diffusion. This perspective allows the development of the necessary linkage between the micro- & macro-level components of the process. The theory is tested using extended time series for seven societies -- the US, UK, Sweden, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the USSR, & the People's Republic of China -- & is supported. 8 Tables, 7 Figures, 1 Appendix, 16 References. HA.