People Power is a classic case in which an electoral legitimacy crisis and mass mobilization became decisive only after senior political and military defections changed the coercive balance. It also shows that restoring electoral constitutional rule does not automatically transform entrenched economic or military power. This profile treats organization, coercion, repression, legitimacy, state response, and outcome as historical variables—not moral shorthand.
People Power is a classic case in which an electoral legitimacy crisis and mass mobilization became decisive only after senior political and military defections changed the coercive balance. It also shows that restoring electoral constitutional rule does not automatically transform entrenched economic or military power.
Electoral challenge · monitoring · civil disobedience · independent broadcasting · mass gatherings
Coverage class: civil resistance with decisive military/elite defection. BuiltToResist does not use violent/nonviolent, armed/unarmed, extremist, insurgent, or legal designation as a credibility or inclusion test. Those fields describe what actors did and how authorities classified them; they do not decide whether the case belongs in the research corpus.
This profile is synthesized from the 2026 Revolutionary Knowledge expansion corpus. Campaign-cycle descriptions are historical research snapshots, not recruitment or tactical guidance. Current legal or political status should be reverified before present-tense reuse.