Política

13 Entrades

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict — Erica Chenoweth, Maria Stephan

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent . . .

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing on . . .