Why civil resistance works : the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict
Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling nonviolent resistance campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, fail. They find such campaigns present fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment
Print Book, English, 2013
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Columbia University Press, New York, 2013
xvii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780231156837, 0231156839
810145714
Why civil resistance works: The success of nonviolent resistance campaigns ; The primacy of participation in nonviolent resistance ; Exploring alternative explanations for the success of civil resistance
Case studies: The Iranian revolution, 1977-1979 ; The first Palestinian intifada, 1987-1992 ; The Philippine People Power movement, 1983-1986 ; Why civil resistance sometimes fails : the Burmese uprising, 1988-1990
The implications of civil resistance: After the campaign : the consequences of violent and nonviolent resistance ; Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendix
Originally published as hbk.: ©2011