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Nonviolent Action and Its Misconceptions: Insights for Social Scientists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2004

Kurt Schock
Kurt Schock
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Rutgers University
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , October 2003 , pp. 705 - 712
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