In Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Non-democracies, Kurt Schock highlights the importance of nonviolent tactics when opposing non-democracies. Schock describes the outcomes of social movements in non-democracies by using components of both the political process model and the nonviolent action theory. Political process model focuses on various components that lead to a social movement’s [...]
Posts tagged as:
global south
In Resources and Social Movement Mobilization, John Foran uses five factors to explain the success of a revolution: “1) dependent development; 2) a repressive, exclusionary, personalist state; 3) the elaboration of effective and powerful political cultures of resistance; and a revolutionary crisis consisting of 4) an economic downturn; and 5) a world-systematic opening” (18). Success [...]
