Misagh Parsa

Selected Publications

• Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed, Harvard University Press (November, 2016).

• “Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979,” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, edited by David Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam, (February 2013).

• “Ideology and Political Action in the Iranian Revolution,” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Vol. 31, No. 1, Duke University Press, (2011).

• “Revolution” Encyclopedia of International Political Science Association, edited by Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, and Leonardo Morlino.  SAGE, (September 2011).

• “The Political Economy of Third World Revolutions,” in “The Handbook on the Political Economy of War,” edited by Christopher Coyne and Rachel L. Mathers, Edward Elgar Publishing, (March 2011).

• “The Contentious Century: Iran from 1919.” In New Cambridge History of Islam, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (November 2010).

• “Democratization Movement and Continuation of the Conflicts of the Iranian Revolution.”  Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis, Vol. 26, # 2, (Fall 2009).

• Introduction to the special issue on the thirtieth anniversary of the Iranian revolution in Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Vol. 29, No. 1, (2009).

• “State, Class, and Ideology in the Iranian Revolution,” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Duke University Press, Vol. 29, No. 1, (2009).

• "Conflicts and Collective Action in the Iranian Revolution: A Quantitative Analysis." Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis, Vol. 20, No. 2, (November 2004).

• Devlet, Ideoloji ve Devrim: Iran, Nikaragua ve Filipinler Devrimlerinin Karsilastirmali Analizi, (2004).

• “Will Globalization and Democratization Make Revolutions Obsolete?” in The Future of Revolutions, J Foran (ed.), (2003).

• “Islamic Fundamentalist Movements and the Theory of Clash of Civilizations,” Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis, 18:1 (April 2002).

• States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines, (2000).