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This article examines the evolution of ETA & Shining Path & the leaders' early theoretical justifications for armed action & the views of dissenters. Although both organizations emerged under similar circumstances, members of each differed in how they thought about violent politics. This resulted in different types & amounts of violence. Leaders revised their thinking amid constitutional change, fierce government repression, & the entrance of new generations of activists. The two cases corroborate several recent scholarly theses -- in particular, hypotheses about the ubiquity of discord & the propensity toward fragmentation within movements that use violence -- & suggest new hypotheses about the role of leadership in the evolution of revolutionary movements. Adapted from the source document.

I During the 1970s, residents in Scotland and the Basque region of Spain began to vote in large numbers for nationalist candidates. Almost overnight the Scottish National Party and a collection of three Basque parties became important electoral forces, expanding their shares in general elections by more than 15 percent of all ballots cast (see Tables 1 and 2).