Movements for social and political change are typically “youth movements” insofar as it is usually young people who are first to demand changes in or of regimes that appear unable to satisfy popular aspirations to basic human rights, personal freedom, economic well-being, and political democracy. To some extent this reflects intergenerational inequities leading to a “conflict of generations” (Feuer 1969) as the young are especially likely to suffer high rates of unemployment and to harbour aspirations stimulated by contact with or awareness of conditions in states that are socially and politically liberal as well as more affluent. But it also reflects the fact that young people are relatively less likely than their elders to be constrained, by obligations of work and family, to conformity with the dominant regime.