- This comparative analysis of 65 quantitative studies reveals that nonviolent revolutions generally lead to more positive institutional outcomes than violent revolutions across domains like democracy, security forces, foreign relations, ethnicity, culture, and well-being.
- Nonviolent resistance movements are more likely to facilitate transitions from autocracy to democracy, improve democratic qualities like civil liberties, transform security forces and judicial systems in rights-respecting directions, and enhance well-being measures such as life expectancy.
Nice try science
I mean it doesn’t surprise me, militant leaders are more likely to be autocratic, whereas peaceful leaders are going to be better at inspiring a populace, adding those together you get the same results