Talk:Spring (political terminology)

Scope

I think you are onto a list that is useful. You probably should consider having "List of" in the title or move the article to Spring (political term).(political term) The page is not clear as to what "political liberalization" means. Are the movements trying to liberate people from existing powers? Also, the page needs some context as to why "spring" is attached to other terms to create such political terms. Is it about movements against existing powers that have finally experienced a season of growth? Is it that they are moving forward by leaps and bounds against existing powers? Is the event so named because the movement against existing powers has returned to its original position after being pushed or pulled or pressed? Does it mean that the movements against existing powers finally developed into a distinctive entity? Are the movements acting like a natural flow of ground water to nurish the people in the face of existing powers? Does it mean that these movements finally are bouncing back after being pressed for so long? Does it mean the movements unexpectedly and suddenly have sprung into action against existing powers? Someone somewhere must have a writting on the topic and you might want to search Google books.political term spring In the mean time, you can find more such spring articles by looking through this search. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 13:02, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

cause/effect

I think that the article implies the term is used as a metaphor but many of these events are so called because they began or peaked around spring. This probably something to do with the climatic conditions for protesting/fighting. There is some research into the optimum weather conditions for rioting, i recall it was briefly discussed on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011qmcl Similarly I've read [citation needed] that the afghan war peaks in spring due to the gap between the opium and hemp harvests. If anyone wants to turn this list into an article thats a direction it could take. Nicoli nicolivich (talk) 01:16, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

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"Political liberalization"

The Wikipedia page by that name is a redirect to Democratization. Looking at its context, it is only used on a limited number of pages to describe easing of communist (socialist) authoritarianism in places like Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, or China. It was being used euphemistically in this article as a definition of "political springs". These "springs" are all revolutionary movements, but all revolutions are not necessarily democratization. Many of these today are exactly the opposite, i.e. students or other troglodytes protesting in favor of socialist or Islamist oppression. JustinTime55 (talk) 16:56, 7 April 2016 (UTC)