Religious Support for Civil Resistance Movements: When and How Does It Contribute to Regime Change?

There is substantial research on the influence of elite defections on civil resistance campaign outcomes. Yet most studies focus on defections among security forces, political leaders, and economic elites. In this article, the author examines religious elite defections. Analyzing 99 civil resistance...

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Autor principal:	Sharon Erickson Nepstad
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Publicado:	SAGE Publishing 2021
Materias:	Social Sciences H Sociology (General) HM401-1281
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d2e53ba447c546468327bdbbd2dbe5d52021-11-15T04:03:46ZReligious Support for Civil Resistance Movements: When and How Does It Contribute to Regime Change?2378-023110.1177/23780231211054997https://doaj.org/article/d2e53ba447c546468327bdbbd2dbe5d52021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1177/23780231211054997https://doaj.org/toc/2378-0231There is substantial research on the influence of elite defections on civil resistance campaign outcomes. Yet most studies focus on defections among security forces, political leaders, and economic elites. In this article, the author examines religious elite defections. Analyzing 99 civil resistance struggles, the author explores whether religious leaders’ support is associated with regime change in authoritarian contexts. The author also uses qualitative comparative analysis to determine the conditions and pathways that lead to a successful outcome. The author illustrates these pathways with four cases (Ukraine’s orange revolution, Mali’s uprising against General Traoré, the Philippine People Power movement, and Malawi’s struggle against President Banda). The results indicate that religious elite defections are not necessary for civil resistance success. However, religious support can contribute critical resources to movements, create a positive flank effect, facilitate security force defections, provide space for resistance in conditions of indiscriminate repression, and activate international networks that can pressure a regime.Sharon Erickson NepstadSAGE PublishingarticleSocial SciencesHSociology (General)HM401-1281ENSocius, Vol 7 (2021)
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description	There is substantial research on the influence of elite defections on civil resistance campaign outcomes. Yet most studies focus on defections among security forces, political leaders, and economic elites. In this article, the author examines religious elite defections. Analyzing 99 civil resistance struggles, the author explores whether religious leaders’ support is associated with regime change in authoritarian contexts. The author also uses qualitative comparative analysis to determine the conditions and pathways that lead to a successful outcome. The author illustrates these pathways with four cases (Ukraine’s orange revolution, Mali’s uprising against General Traoré, the Philippine People Power movement, and Malawi’s struggle against President Banda). The results indicate that religious elite defections are not necessary for civil resistance success. However, religious support can contribute critical resources to movements, create a positive flank effect, facilitate security force defections, provide space for resistance in conditions of indiscriminate repression, and activate international networks that can pressure a regime.
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title	Religious Support for Civil Resistance Movements: When and How Does It Contribute to Regime Change?
title_short	Religious Support for Civil Resistance Movements: When and How Does It Contribute to Regime Change?
title_full	Religious Support for Civil Resistance Movements: When and How Does It Contribute to Regime Change?
title_fullStr	Religious Support for Civil Resistance Movements: When and How Does It Contribute to Regime Change?
title_full_unstemmed	Religious Support for Civil Resistance Movements: When and How Does It Contribute to Regime Change?
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Religious Support for Civil Resistance Movements: When and How Does It Contribute to Regime Change?

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