University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations Dissertations and Theses July 2019 Pakistani Pro-Democracy Movement: From the 1960s to the 2000s Sofia Checa University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2 Part of the Asian History Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Checa, Sofia, "Pakistani Pro-Democracy Movement: From the 1960s to the 2000s" (2019). Doctoral Dissertations. 1616. https://doi.org/10.7275/nf80-pe75 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/1616 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. PAKISTANI PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT: FROM THE 1960s TO THE 2000s A Dissertation Presented by SOFIA HAMDANI CHECA Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY May 2019 Department of Sociology © Copyright by Sofia H. Checa 2019 All Rights Reserved PAKISTANI PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT: FROM THE 1960s TO THE 2000s A Dissertation Presented by SOFIA HAMDANI CHECA Approved as to style and content by: ____________________________________ Dan Clawson, Chair ____________________________________ Joya Misra, Member ____________________________________ Millie Thayer, Member ____________________________________ Obed Pasha, Member __________________________________ Anthony Paik, Chair Department of Sociology DEDICATION To my parents: Mercedes Checa Molina & Dr. Abbas Jafar Hamdani ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Dan Clawson, chair of my dissertation committee, for his guidance and continued support through this long process.