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Unarmed insurrections : people power movements in nondemocracies / Kurt Schock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schock, Kurt, 1963-
- Series:
- Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 22.
- Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nonviolence.
- Social movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- From "people's war" to "people power"?
- Political process and nonviolent action approaches to political contention
- People power unleashed : South Arica and the Philippines
- People power suppressed : Burma and China
- Challenging monarchies and militaries : people power in Nepal and Thailand
- Trajectories of unarmed insurrections.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9507-5
- OCLC:
- 476095629
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