People-Powered and Non-Violent Social Movements: Forcing Gradualist Democratic Reforms in Authoritarian Societies
Not all successful unarmed civil insurrections against dictatorships take place in a dramatic mass uprising with hundreds of thousands occupying central squares in the capital city. There have also been cases of nonviolent struggles against autocratic regimes that failed to topple the dictatorship i...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022-02-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Political Science |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2021.721055/full |