Zahid Shahab Ahmed and Maria J. Stephan. “Fighting for the Rule of Law: Civil Resistance and the Lawyers’ Movement in Pakistan.” Democratization, vol. 17, no. 3 (2010): 492–513.
This article explores how Pakistan’s grassroots lawyers’ movement, despite widespread apathy and repression, successfully used nonviolent resistance, civil disobedience, and mass participation to oust an authoritarian ruler and restore judicial independence, demonstrating the growing power of civil society to effect democratic change in a challenging political landscape.