Jeff Goodwin

Jeffrey Roger Goodwin (born January 28, 1958) is a professor of sociology at New York University.

His research interests include social movements, revolutions, political violence, and terrorism. He has also written about W. E. B. Du Bois and the black radical tradition, including Black Marxism. He has served as chair of several sections of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and was coeditor of the ASA journal Contexts from 2004 to 2007.

The underlying argument of his best known book, ''No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991'', is that revolutionary movements are not only a response to economic inequality or exploitation, but are also, and more regularly, a response to political repression and indiscriminate violence by weak, or suddenly weakened, authoritarian regimes. Provided by Wikipedia