Social power and political freedom
By: Gene Sharp ; introd. by Mark O. Hatfield
Series: Extending horizons books
Publisher: P. Sargent Publishers
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780875580913; 9780875580937
Subjects: Passive resistance; Nonviolence; Resistance to Government; Power (Social sciences)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction by Senator Mark O. Hatfield; title: Rethinking Politics; title: Seeking controls of over governments; title: The role of diffused "Loci" of power in the control of political power; title: Institutional forms secondary to the actual distribution of power; title: Control of political power as a result of internal strength; title: Implications of this analysis for the control of political power; title: Political sanctions and the distribution of effective power; title: The need to think; title: The lesson of Eichmann, a review-essay on Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem"; title: Facing dictatorships with confidence; title: Civil disobedience in a democracy; title: Freedom and revolution. A review of Hannah Arendt's "On Revolution"; title: What is required to uproot oppression? Strategic Problems of the South African resistance; title: The problem of political technique in radical politics.