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Nonviolent Action and Its Misconceptions: Insights for Social Scientists

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Nonviolent Action and Its Misconceptions: Insights for Social Scientists

Examines popular and scholarly misconceptions about nonviolence, in the hope that biases in the social scientific analysis of nonviolent action can be attenuated.

Kurt Schock

Political Science & Politics — October 2003
Cambridge University Press

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