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Power in Numbers: The Political Strategy of Protest and Rebellion.
John Walton,James DeNardo +1 more
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1986-05-01. It has received 348 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Political strategy & Power (social and political).read more
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Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy
TL;DR: The authors argues that civil war is now an important issue for development and that war retards development, but conversely, development retards war, giving rise to virtuous and vicious circles.
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Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
Maria J. Stephan,Erica Chenoweth +1 more
TL;DR: The historical record indicates that nonviolent campaigns have been more successful than armed campaigns in achieving ultimate goals in political struggles as discussed by the authors, even when used against similar opponents, and that such campaigns can be used against the same opponents.
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International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis
TL;DR: This paper found that multilateral, United Nations peace operations make a positive difference in ending civil war and that UN peacekeeping is positively correlated with democratization processes after civil war, and multilateral enforcement operations are usually successful in ending the violence.
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Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel?: New Data and Analysis
TL;DR: This article analyzed outbreaks of armed conflict as the result of competing ethnonationalist claims to state power and found that representatives of ethnic groups are more likely to initiate conflict with the government, especially if they have recently lost power, the higher their mobilizational capacity, and the more they have experienced conflict in the past.
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Sparks and prairie fires: A theory of unanticipated political revolution
TL;DR: The authors argued that people who come to dislike their government are apt to hide their desire for change as long as the opposition seems weak, and that a government that appears unshakeable might see its support crumble following a slight surge in the opposition's apparent size, caused by events insignificant in and of them- selves.