2014•The Encyclopedia of Political ThoughtRequires access
Direct Action
Ronald J. Terchek
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Abstract Direct action usually refers to unconventional, nonviolent political action that is undertaken when conventional politics is unavailable or inadequate to effect significant change. Gandhi's civil disobedience campaigns in India, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s civil rights movement, and the many prodemocracy campaigns in the old Soviet bloc, South Africa, and elsewhere exemplify direct action.