Mass Mobilization - Nonviolence Vs Violent Tactics

Nonviolence Vs Violent Tactics

According to Donatella della Porta and Sidney Tarrow, the mechanism that produces violence in the declining phase of the collective action cycle is a result of the competition that arises among different sectors of the social movement. Together they formed a theory stating that as mass mobilization winds down, political violence rises in magnitude and intensity.

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