Unarmed Insurrections : People Power Movements In Nondemocracies /

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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Schock, Kurt, 1963- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Proteströrelser.
Icke-våld.
Autoritarisme.
Geweldloosheid.
Sociale bewegingen.
Soziale Bewegung
Gewaltloser Widerstand
Autoritärer Staat
Protestbewegung
Politische Bewegung
Social movements.
Nonviolence.
Passive resistance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
social movements.
Mouvements sociaux.
Resistance passive.
Non-violence.
Südostasien
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816695072

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