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From dictatorship to democracy : a conceptual framework for liberation / Gene Sharp

By:

Sharp, Gene

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : New Press ; , 2012, c2002.Description: xx, 138 p. ; 19 cmISBN:

9781595588500

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DDC classification:

321.8 SHA

LOC classification:

JC423 .S475 2012

Summary: Sharp analyzes the anatomy of dictatorships, the cultures of nonviolent resistance that bring them down, and how effective democratic modes of collective life are forged out of those cultures. It's not a detailed analysis of any particular struggle with a dictator, but more of an abstract view on the elements that Sharp has gleaned from his interactions with survivors and resistors of dictatorships. He considers facing dictator's realistically so as to reduce casualties, the dangers of negotiations, sources of political power, attacking the weaknesses of dictators through nonviolent struggle, strategic planning and applying political defiance. A final chapter presents "a groundwork for durable democracy" that addresses the threat of new dictators and defending democracy.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	321.8 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		041768

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-138).

Sharp analyzes the anatomy of dictatorships, the cultures of nonviolent resistance that bring them down, and how effective democratic modes of collective life are forged out of those cultures. It's not a detailed analysis of any particular struggle with a dictator, but more of an abstract view on the elements that Sharp has gleaned from his interactions with survivors and resistors of dictatorships. He considers facing dictator's realistically so as to reduce casualties, the dangers of negotiations, sources of political power, attacking the weaknesses of dictators through nonviolent struggle, strategic planning and applying political defiance. A final chapter presents "a groundwork for durable democracy" that addresses the threat of new dictators and defending democracy.

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