Author(s): Anthony Oberschall
In: Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, Mayer N. Zald, Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 93-121
Emphasises the importance of the nonviolent moral force versus a force that had the means of control and repression but lacked moral authority.