Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Pathways to Revolution
- 2 Social Ties and Civil Resistance
- 3 Nepal’s Gandhians Take Arms
- 4 Nepal’s Maoists Take to the Streets
- 5 Syria in the Arab Spring
- 6 Resisting Colonial Rule in the Syrian Mandate
- 7 Barriers to Civil Resistance: A Global Analysis
- 8 Gandhi Revisited: Overcoming Barriers to Civil Resistance in South Africa and India
- 9 Conclusion
- Appendix: Notes on Field Research in Nepal
- References
- Index
- Series page
7 - Barriers to Civil Resistance: A Global Analysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 September 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Pathways to Revolution
- 2 Social Ties and Civil Resistance
- 3 Nepal’s Gandhians Take Arms
- 4 Nepal’s Maoists Take to the Streets
- 5 Syria in the Arab Spring
- 6 Resisting Colonial Rule in the Syrian Mandate
- 7 Barriers to Civil Resistance: A Global Analysis
- 8 Gandhi Revisited: Overcoming Barriers to Civil Resistance in South Africa and India
- 9 Conclusion
- Appendix: Notes on Field Research in Nepal
- References
- Index
- Series page
Summary
This chapter is an attempt at exploring the drivers of dissident strategy beyond Nepal and Syria through an examination of global quantitative data. First, I present a cross-national overview of when and where civil resistance campaigns have been used in pursuit of regime change between 1951 and 2012. An examination of the characteristics of states in which these campaigns have occurred illustrates the strengths and limitations of alternative state-centric approaches to understanding civil resistance. Next, I test an implication of the theory of social ties by showing how ethnic divisions create barriers to civil resistance. The findings reveal that demographically small and politically excluded ethnic groups are relatively less likely to initiate civil resistance campaigns.
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- Between Mao and GandhiThe Social Roots of Civil Resistance, pp. 162 - 188Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021