The findings suggest that scholars must consider the democracy-autocracy dichotomy when making generalizations about social movements. Lumping them together as a single phenomenon ignores a tremendous lot of variance owing to regional differences. Further scholarly research into how social movements in hegemonic politics might promote democracy and human development is critical, as a large section of the developing globe remains under authoritarian rule. North Africa’s social movements, political mobilizations, and contested politics are inter-related and may all be logically explained. However, this does not mean that prior versions of social movement theories, which have emphasized economically driven or other methodologically individualist methods of measurement, will be reintroduced. Rather, reason must be viewed in the context of history and society.