In social movements and contentious politics, the factors determining success or failure of a movement remain contested since different scholars tend to argue differently. As a contribution to this debate, this paper draws on two cases representing the relative success and failure of movements targeting the government of Cambodia and foreign joint venture investments to address the communities’ grievances. The paper reveals that, while other factors such as strategies, resource mobilisation, networks and corporate behaviour remain necessary to the debate, the variation in outcome is essentially determined by the patron–client network, a political dynamic employed by the neo-patrimonial rulers to cling onto power.

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柬埔寨的社会运动：成功或失败的原因

在社会运动和有争议的政治中，决定运动成败的因素仍然存在争议，因为不同的学者倾向于不同的争论。作为对这场辩论的贡献，本文借鉴了两个案例，分别代表针对柬埔寨政府的运动和外国合资投资解决社区不满的运动的相对成功和失败。该论文揭示，虽然战略、资源调动、网络和公司行为等其他因素仍然是辩论所必需的，但结果的变化基本上由赞助人-客户网络决定，这是新世袭统治者利用的一种政治动力紧紧抓住权力。