Verfasst von:	Thurber, Ches [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Between Mao and Gandhi
Titelzusatz:	the social roots of civil resistance
Verf.angabe:	Ches Thurber, Northern Illinois University
Verlagsort:	Cambridge
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Jahr:	2021
Umfang:	xiii, 265 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Diagramme
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Cambridge studies in contentious politics
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 241-256, Register
ISBN:	978-1-108-84406-2
Abstract:	From Eastern Europe to South Africa to the Arab Spring, nonviolent action has proven capable of overthrowing autocratic regimes and bringing about revolutionary political change. How do dissidents come to embrace a nonviolent strategy in the first place? Why do others rule it out in favor of taking up arms? Despite a new wave of attention to the effectiveness and global impact of nonviolent movements, our understanding of their origins and trajectories remains limited. Drawing on cases from Nepal, Syria, India and South Africa, as well as global cross-national data, this book details the processes through which challenger organizations come to embrace or reject civil resistance as a means of capturing state power. It develops a relational theory, showing how the social ties that underpin challenger organizations shape their ability and willingness to attempt regime change using nonviolent means alone.
Schlagwörter:	(s)Gewaltloser Widerstand
Sprache:	eng
Sach-SW:	Civil disobedience
	Passive resistance
	History
K10plus-PPN:	1771973714