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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Civil resistance"”.
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A Computational Analysis of Civil Resistance Dynamics and Outcomes
<p>The dilemma that civil resistance movements encounter is the inherent tension between structure and agency. Movements frequently face challenges that they have no control over, such as the type of government they oppose and the risks of mobilization. Nevertheless, the fate of civil resistance …
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Winning Well: Civil Resistance Mechanisms of Success, Democracy, and Civil Peace
… studies indicate that revolutions of non-violent civil resistance lead to more democratic and peaceful political transitions than either violent revolutions or elite-led political transitions. However, this general trend has not been disaggregated to explain the many prominent cases where …
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Racial threat theory and Black Lives Matter: advancing our understanding of police killings of Black Americans and consequential civil resistance in contemporary America
Until recently research on Black civil resistance in America has remained heavily concentrated on the Civil Rights Movement. However, the rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has created an opportunity to advance this field of literature beyond the Civil Rights Movement. Given that this …
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The Choice of Terrorism in Conflict and the Outcomes of Mixed Methods of Dissent
… in mass dissident movements and the outcomes of civil resistance campaigns that coexist with the use of terrorist tactics by radicals. Towards this end, it focuses on dissident organizations and conflict dynamics and therefore contributes to the existing literature on terrorism and conflict, both …
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Connection and Resistance: Civilian experiences of violence in conflict zones and their impact on civilians’ political preferences for violent and nonviolent resistance
… or instead, radicalize members of the civilian population? I present a new theory evaluating social isolation and social connection as mechanisms affecting civilians’ political preferences in response to state-sponsored violence. State use of force policies such as checkpoints, curfews, …
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Spring in Summer: Strikes, Austerity and Solidarity in Poland (July – August 1980)
… Although primarily focussed on the role of civil resistance in Poland, as the first stand-alone account of the strikes to appear in English since the mid-1980s, this thesis has a number of innovations. Firstly, it provides a day-by-day account of the August strikes which seeks to emphasise …
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Kuduro, rap and resistance: Politics of music and activism in ‘new’ hegemonic Angola
Keywords: kuduro, rap, music, diasporic, resistance, neoliberalism, seductive power, necropower, frozen citizenship, electronic capitalism, visibility, human rights I introduce kuduro music as a vantage point to uncover the political landscape of Angola where critical voices do not emerge with …
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Civilian Autonomy and Resilience in the Midst of Armed Conflict
… of armed violence and insecurity, how do civilians influence the political environment around them? In this dissertation, I present three different studies that broadly engage this question. In concert, the papers presented herein offer new insights on civilians' relationship to armed …
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The Right to Resist: A Theological Investigation of the Moral Legitimacy of Maximalist Campaigns
… into the moral legitimacy of maximalist resistance campaigns. It was prompted by the results of landmark research in political science finding that, over the course of the twentieth century, nonviolent campaigns were statistically more effective than their violent counterparts in …