This Element details how elites provide policy concessions when
they face credible threats of revolution. Specifically, the authors
discuss how the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent
formation of Comintern enhanced elites' perceptions of
revolutionary threat by affecting the capacity and motivation of
labor movements as well as the elites' interpretation of
information signals. These developments incentivized elites to
provide policy concessions to urban workers, notably reduced
working hours and expanded social transfer programs. The authors
assess their argument by using original qualitative and
quantitative data. First, they document changes in perceptions of
revolutionary threat and strategic policy concessions in early
inter-war Norway by using archival and other sources. Second, they
code, for example, representatives at the 1919 Comintern meeting to
proxy for credibility of domestic revolutionary threat in
cross-national analysis. States facing greater threats expanded
various social policies to a larger extent than other countries,
and some of these differences persisted for decades.
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