Revolutions and Democracy
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Abstract In recent years, the question of what form a revolutionary uprising will take – armed or unarmed has been raised more often. This is because, as shown by numerous studies, nonviolence can explain why an fails succeeds to lead democracy. decades likelihood revolution being nonviolent appears have significantly increased, but it still not clear this tendency observed. Moreover, there are only few quantitative cross-national studies on topic, in which authors tried apparent pattern. However, none them considered political factors separately. article tests hypothesis that country’s level democracy inhibit violence. By applying logistic regression NAVCO database, analyze than 400 episodes and conclude that, general, democratic system, likely form. Nevertheless, various events could be rather different nature, further matters for sociopolitical revolutions, while ethno-separatist revolutions does play significant role.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Comparative Sociology
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1569-1330', '1569-1322']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-bja10073