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Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism: An introduction

Donatella della Porta, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

Type: Journal Article
Year: 2012

Research on political violence occurs in waves, generally corresponding to the successive swells of violence that in many ways define modern society. Critically, this violence is characterized as much by diversity as by uniformity. As each new spate in research on political violence has shown us, rarely can we generalize about either the aims or the repertoires of action of the purveyors of violence. Some similar mechanisms are in play, however, as violence develops from political conflicts between states and their opponents.

Social Science History, 2012, 36, 3, 311-320. ISSN: 1527-8034; 0145-5532

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