civil disobedience

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

political scientist

is an illegal act, usually on the part of collective actors, that is public, principled, and symbolic in character, involving primarily nonviolent means of protest, and an appeal to the capacity for reason and the sense of justice of the populace.

Civil disobedience involves illegal acts, usually on the part of collective actors, that are public, principled, and symbolic in character, involved primarily nonviolent means of protest, and appeal to the capacity for reason and the sense of justice of the populace. The aim of civil disobedience is to persuade public opinion in civil and political society (or economic society) that a particular law or policy is illegitimate and a change is warranted' (Cohen and Arato 1992: 587-8).

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Jean L. Cohen