POL 161 Lecture 9: chapter 7 class notes
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Violence outside of state control: seeks to achieve some political objective with force, not protests, unless they are violent and done for a political reasoning. Groups within the state using violence for political purposes. Ex: revolution, terrorism, guerrilla, riots in the name of politics types of political violence: revolution: public seizure of the state, seeks to fundamentally remake institution. Often start when people who are not the poorest, get feed up with getting abused & harassed by the government & pissed off about corruption within the government. Anyone associated with the state is considered guilty. 1. institutional: organizations/patterns of activity that constrain human activity, thus provoking outrage: set the context for political violence. 2. ideational: to make sense of the factors that are oppressing & abusing the civilians: describing or making sense of the problem that leads to the revolution/violence, mental framework to explain the chaos.
