Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Puzzles of People Power -- 1. Institutional Uncertainty and Elite-Led Mobilization -- 2. The View from Below: Communities as Sites for Collective Action -- 3. The View from Above: State Influences on Elite Opportunities -- 4. Linkages across Classes: The Development of Subversive Clientelism -- 5. Mobilization in Rural Kyrgyzstan -- 6. Elite Networks and the Tulip Revolution -- 7. Assessing the Dynamics of Mobilization in Diverse Contexts -- Conclusion: Political Economies, Hybrid Regimes, and Challenges to Democratization -- Methodological Appendix -- Index.