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power-coercive strategy

power-coercive strategy

in social psychology, a tactic based on the uses of economic, social, and political power to effect societal change, usually through nonviolent measures (e.g., organized boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, demonstrations, registration drives, lobbying). See also empirical-rational strategy; normative-reeducative strategy.

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