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From Dissent to Democracy

The Promise and Perils of Civil Resistance Transitions

By: Jonathan C. Pinckney

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From Dissent to Democracy

The Promise and Perils of Civil Resistance Transitions

By: Jonathan C. Pinckney

Peaceful protest is a strong driver for democratization across the globe. Yet, it doesn't always lead to democratic transition, as seen in the Arab Spring revolutions in Egypt or Yemen. Why do some nonviolent transitions end in democracy while others do not? In From Dissent to Democracy, Jonathan Pinckney systematically examines transitions initiated by nonviolent resistance campaigns and argues that two key factors explain whether or not democracy will follow such efforts. First, a movement must sustain high levels of social mobilization. Second, it must direct that mobilization away from revolutionary "maximalist" goals and tactics and towards support for new institutions. Pinckney tests his theory by presenting a global statistical analysis of all political transitions from 1945-2011 and three case studies from Nepal, Zambia, and Brazil. Original and empirically rigorous, this book provides new insights into the intersection of democratization and nonviolent resistance and gives actionable recommendations for how to encourage democratic transitions.

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0190097337

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From Dissent to Democracy

The Promise and Perils of Civil Resistance Transitions

By: Jonathan C. Pinckney

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From Dissent to Democracy

The Promise and Perils of Civil Resistance Transitions

By: Jonathan C. Pinckney

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The Promise and Perils of Civil Resistance Transitions

By: Jonathan C. Pinckney

Under what conditions will successful nonviolent revolutions lead to democratization? While the scholarly literature has shown that nonviolent resistance has a positive effect on a country's level of democracy, little research to date has disaggregated this population to explain which cases of successful nonviolent resistance lead to democracy and which do not. This book presents a theory of democratization in transitions initiated by nonviolent resistance based on the successful resolution of two central strategic challenges: maintaining high transitional mobilization and avoiding institutionally destructive maximalism. I test the theory first on a dataset of every transition from authoritarian rule in the post-World War II period and second with three in-depth case studies informed by interviews with key decision-makers in Nepal, Zambia, and Brazil. The testing supports the importance of high mobilization and low maximalism. Both have strong, consistent effects on democratization after nonviolent resistance"--

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0190097345

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Slavery in North America Vol 1

From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

By: Mark M. Smith,Peter S Carmichael,Timothy Lockley,Jonathan Daniel Wells

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Slavery in North America Vol 1

From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

By: Mark M. Smith,Peter S Carmichael,Timothy Lockley,Jonathan Daniel Wells

First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 1 includes a general introduction and the colonial period covering slavery and the law, slave resistance, religion and slavery; and Pro-Slavery, Anti-Slavery and the Revolutionary Impulse.

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Routledge

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1000559114

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The Second Creation

Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era

By: Jonathan Gienapp

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The Second Creation

Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era

By: Jonathan Gienapp

A stunning revision of our founding document’s evolving history that forces us to confront anew the question that animated the founders so long ago: What is our Constitution? Americans widely believe that the United States Constitution was created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. But in a shrewd rereading of the Founding era, Jonathan Gienapp upends this long-held assumption, recovering the unknown story of American constitutional creation in the decade after its adoption—a story with explosive implications for current debates over constitutional originalism and interpretation. When the Constitution first appeared, it was shrouded in uncertainty. Not only was its meaning unclear, but so too was its essential nature. Was the American Constitution a written text, or something else? Was it a legal text? Was it finished or unfinished? What rules would guide its interpretation? Who would adjudicate competing readings? As political leaders put the Constitution to work, none of these questions had answers. Through vigorous debates they confronted the document’s uncertainty, and—over time—how these leaders imagined the Constitution radically changed. They had begun trying to fix, or resolve, an imperfect document, but they ended up fixing, or cementing, a very particular notion of the Constitution as a distinctively textual and historical artifact circumscribed in space and time. This means that some of the Constitution’s most definitive characteristics, ones which are often treated as innate, were only added later and were thus contingent and optional.

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Harvard University Press

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067498952X

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The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 5

By: Jonathan Elliot

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The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 5

By: Jonathan Elliot

The five volumes furnish a collection of the Debates and Proceedings which took place in the different states, on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as submitted by the General Convention, on the 17th of September, 1787. In the compilation, care has been taken to search into contemporary publications, in order to make the work as perfect as possible. Still, however, the sentiments they contain may, in some instances, have been inaccurately taken down, and, in others, probably, too faintly sketched, fully to gratify the inquisitive politician; but they nevertheless disclose the opinions of many of the most distinguished revolutionary patriots and statesmen, in relation to the powers intended to be granted to the Congress of the United States under the Constitution, and certainly may form an excellent guide in expounding many doubtful points in that instrument. In forming a History of the Constitution, the materials they furnish must be also considered of the greatest importance. The lights, too, which they throw on the character and the men of those extraordinary times, will always give them a sufficient interest, in the eyes of an intelligent community, to confer a peculiar value on their publication, rescued from the ephemeral prints of that day.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 1

By: Jonathan Elliot

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By: Jonathan Elliot

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Book's by Jonathan C. Pinckney

From Dissent to Democracy

From Dissent to Democracy

From Dissent to Democracy

From Dissent to Democracy

From Dissent to Democracy

From Dissent to Democracy

Slavery in North America Vol 1

Slavery in North America Vol 1

The Second Creation

The Second Creation

The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 5

The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 5

The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 1

The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 1

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