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Author Sharp, Gene, 1928-2018, author.

Title Social power and political freedom / Gene Sharp ; introduction by Mark O. Hatfield.

Imprint Boston : Porter Sargent Publishers, ©1980.

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 Axe Special Collections Eucalyptus  323 Sh23s 1980    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xv, 440 pages ; 22 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Extending horizons books
Extending horizons books.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction by Senator Mark O. Hatfield -- Rethinking Politics -- Seeking controls of over governments -- The role of diffused "Loci" of power in the control of political power -- Institutional forms secondary to the actual distribution of power -- Control of political power as a result of internal strength -- Implications of this analysis for the control of political power -- Political sanctions and the distribution of effective power -- The need to think -- The lesson of Eichmann, a review-essay on Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" -- Facing dictatorships with confidence -- Civil disobedience in a democracy -- Freedom and revolution. A review of Hannah Arendt's "On Revolution" -- What is required to uproot oppression? Strategic Problems of the South African resistance -- The problem of political technique in radical politics.
Subject Government, Resistance to.
Nonviolence.
Passive resistance.
Power (Social sciences)
Government, Resistance to. (OCoLC)fst00945663
Nonviolence. (OCoLC)fst01039027
Passive resistance. (OCoLC)fst01054436
Power (Social sciences) (OCoLC)fst01074219
Added Author Hatfield, Mark O., writer of introduction
ISBN 0875580912
9780875580913
0875580939 (pbk.)
9780875580937 (pbk.)

 
    
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