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Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies and Citizen Power, Politics, and the Asian Miracle: Reassessing the Dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2007

Teresa Wright
Teresa Wright
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California State University at Long Beach
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Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies. By Kurt Schock. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. $67.50 cloth, $22.50 paper.

Citizen Power, Politics, and the Asian Miracle: Reassessing the Dynamics. By O. Fiona Yap. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reiner, 2005. $49.95.

These works exemplify the kind of broadly comparative study that many political scientists call for, yet few actually undertake. Kurt Schock studies six different popular movements against authoritarian rule, and O. Fiona Yap analyzes the interaction between citizens and government in four Asian newly industrialized countries (NICs). Together, they illuminate the dynamics of state-society relations in illiberal political contexts.

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BOOK REVIEWS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 394 - 396
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

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