People power and political change
Subtitle: key issues and concepts
By: April Carter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780415580489; 9780415580496; 9780203181102
Subjects: Democratization; Protest movements; Regime change; Resistance to Government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Resistance and political change. People power and nonviolent methods in historical perspective; People power and people's war compared; People power and changing theories of revolution; title: Part II. Central concepts and debates. Power, violence and unarmed resistance; Constructing the "people": body politic, nation or class?; People power and electoral democracy: electoral revolutions and democratization; title: Part III. Implications of globalization for success of people power. Global trends, transnational solidarity and international politics; conclusion.