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Unarmed insurrections : people power movements in nondemocracies /
Kurt Schock compares, along with other examples, the successes of anti-apartheid in South Africa and the people power movement in the Philippines with the failures of the pro-democracy movement in China and the anti-regime challenge in Burma. Unarmed Insurrections looks at how these methods promoted...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Social movements, protest, and contention ;
v. 22. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Kurt Schock compares, along with other examples, the successes of anti-apartheid in South Africa and the people power movement in the Philippines with the failures of the pro-democracy movement in China and the anti-regime challenge in Burma. Unarmed Insurrections looks at how these methods promoted change in some countries but not in others, and provides insight into the power of nonviolent action. Winner of the American Political Science Association's Comparative Democratization Section's Best Book Award. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 228 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-210) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816641925 0816641927 9780816641932 0816641935 9780816695072 0816695075 |