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For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that 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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political activism

• Full title: Why Civil Resistance Works
• Author: Chenoweth
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780231156837
• ISBN: 0231156839
• ID: 01199813
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 488 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 227 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. December 2012

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