Debunking the Myths Behind Nonviolent Civil Resistance

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=J_s_jNN794" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=J_s_jNN794</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920520913982" target="_blank" >10.1177/0896920520913982</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Debunking the Myths Behind Nonviolent Civil Resistance

Original language description

Scholars argue that nonviolence is likelier to cause political change in comparison to other strategies, including violence. This study identifies issues throughout this literature ranging from coding procedures, observational sampling, to interpretations of phenomena. If unarmed violence, reactive violence, and omitted cases are analyzed, nonviolent success rates are worse than formerly considered. Inclusion of 19th century (1800-1900) cases and previously unanalyzed cases from the 20th century reveals that nonviolent campaigns experienced a 48% rate of success, whereas campaigns that adopted unarmed violence were 61% successful, campaigns utilizing reactive unarmed violence were 60% successful, and 30% of fully violent campaigns were successful. Nonviolence is not a causal determinant of political change, but rather, its implementation falls short of a probabilistic coin toss. There is reason to presume this literature is biased toward elite interests in similar ways to how scientific inquiry on dietary and substance guidelines has historically been skewed by corporatism.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Critical Sociology

ISSN

0896-9205

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

46

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7-8

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

1121-1139

UT code for WoS article

000532741300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85084533666