A theory of popular collective action in autocracies. -- Accounting for Mexico's cycle of indigenous protest: quantitative evidence. -- Competing for souls: why the Catholic Church became a major promoter of indigenous mobilization. -- Competing for votes: why electoral competition shaped Mexico's cycle of indigenous protest. -- A call to arms: regime reversion threats and the escalation of protest into rebellion. -- From social movement to armed rebellion: religious networks and the microdynamics of rebel recruitment. -- Politicizing ethnicity: the breakdown of religious and political hegemonies and the rise of indigenous identities. -- The twilight of ethnicity: democratization as an elite strategy to avert Mexico's indigenous insurgency.

1. Democratization -- Mexico
2. Indians of Mexico
3. Social movements -- Mexics
4. Land reform -- Mexico