Download or read book Authoritarian Cue Effect of State Repression written by 白云鹏 and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Repression Under Authoritarian Rule written by Dag Tanneberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does authoritarian rule benefit from political repression? This book claims that it does, if restrictions and violence, two fundamentally different forms of repression, complement each other. Based on an in-depth quantitative analysis of the post-Second World War period, the author draws three central conclusions. Firstly, restrictions and violence offer different advantages, suffer from different drawbacks, and matter differently for identical problems of authoritarian rule. Secondly, empirical data supports complementarity only as long as political repression preempts political opposition. Lastly, despite its conceptual centrality, political repression has little influence on the outcomes of authoritarian politics. The book also offers new insights into questions such as whether repression hinders successful political campaigns or whether it is more likely to trigger coups d’état.
Download or read book The Death and Life of State Repression written by Christian Davenport and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death and Life of State Repression addresses a problem that dates back at least 75 years, if not before. Since World War II, individuals and institutions from around the world have been concerned with state repression/human rights violations and since about 1990, a robust empiricalliterature has emerged to investigate what drives this behavior up or down (i.e., exploring variation). While useful, this work has generally ignored important aspects of the "Death/Life cycle" of state repression: i.e., its onset, escalation, termination and recurrence. Such an approach isimportant because different explanations and policies might be relevant for different parts of the cycle. Exploring a new database of repressive spells from 1976-2006 and new theory regarding spells, The Death and Life of State Repression breaks new ground in a variety of different ways.The book argues that repression is a sticky process that is largely slow-moving and non-adaptive. Consequently, change in this behavior is rare unless the ruling cohort is perturbed in some manner. What perturbs is somewhat surprising. The authors do not argue or find support for the predominantvariables/policies advanced by the international community (i.e., naming/shaming, international law, military intervention and economic sanctions). Rather, their research advances and finds that political democratization plays a crucial role in reducing and stopping most aspects of repressivespells, and democratization itself is influenced by non-violent direct action. The book has major implications for those who wish to study state repression, as well as those who have an interest in trying to reduce and stop it from occurring across the Death/Life cycle. The path to less repressivebehavior has never been clearer.
Download or read book The Death and Life of State Repression written by Christian Davenport and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death and Life of State Repression addresses a problem that dates back at least 75 years, if not before. Since World War II, individuals and institutions from around the world have been concerned with state repression/human rights violations and since about 1990, a robust empirical literature has emerged to investigate what drives this behavior up or down (i.e., exploring variation). While useful, this work has generally ignored important aspects of the "Death/Life cycle" of state repression: i.e., its onset, escalation, termination and recurrence. Such an approach is important because different explanations and policies might be relevant for different parts of the cycle. Exploring a new database of repressive spells from 1976-2006 and new theory regarding spells, The Death and Life of State Repression breaks new ground in a variety of different ways. The book argues that repression is a sticky process that is largely slow-moving and non-adaptive. Consequently, change in this behavior is rare unless the ruling cohort is perturbed in some manner. What perturbs is somewhat surprising. The authors do not argue or find support for the predominant variables/policies advanced by the international community (i.e., naming/shaming, international law, military intervention and economic sanctions). Rather, their research advances and finds that political democratization plays a crucial role in reducing and stopping most aspects of repressive spells, and democratization itself is influenced by non-violent direct action. The book has major implications for those who wish to study state repression, as well as those who have an interest in trying to reduce and stop it from occurring across the Death/Life cycle. The path to less repressive behavior has never been clearer.
Download or read book Trapped in a Vicious Circle written by Nicolas Rost and published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the links between threats to human security, such as civil war, human rights violations, and other political violence? How can these links be used to assess the risk of more violence to come? And what can be done to manage violent conflicts? 'Trapped in a Vicious Circle' examines these questions empirically, using global datasets. In the first part, the author looks at links between different threats. A first study finds that genocide lowers the probability that new states will become democracies. A second study establishes a strong link between government repression and the risk of future civil war. Second, three risk assessment models are presented, for civil war, government repression, and genocide. By including threats to human security in the empirical models, meaningful tools can be constructed that assess the risk of future political violence with some accuracy. The third part examines two types of conflict management. International mediation between civil war parties has an ambiguous effect on the duration of peace after the war. An analysis of peacekeeping shows that states do not shy away from sending peacekeepers into complex conflicts.
Download or read book The Legacies of Authoritarian Repression on Civil Society written by Laia Balcells and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper we examine the legacies on civil society of routine repressive activities carried out by authoritarian regimes, such as the targeting of opposition organizations. We focus on participation in voluntary associations in post-authoritarian Spain. We hypothesize that while repression initially depresses civic life, such effects do not persist after the demise of authoritarianism and the consolidation of a democratic regime. We analyse the impact of repression during the late Francoist regime (1960s-1970s) on local-level patterns of associationism during the democratic period (covering the period 1976-2021). We find that repression has a null local-level effect on the registration of new voluntary organizations during the early democratic period, but a significant and positive effect after 1981, once Spanish democracy consolidated. In order to probe into the mechanisms of such time-variant effects, we analyse a pool of 140,000 individual surveys fielded between 1989 and 2017. Such individual-level analyses indicate that the increase in organizational life in repressed areas might have more to do with a generational replacement effect than with people losing fear of participating over time.
Download or read book Transnational Repression in the Age of Globalisation written by Dana Moss and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading scholars, this volume is the first of its kind to address the growing global phenomenon of transnational repression - using tactics that include surveillance, coercion, harassment and physical violence - in a comparative perspective.
Download or read book Carrot Or Stick written by Yahve Gallegos and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the effects that two different strategies, "carrots" and "sticks" respectively, have on authoritarian regime stability and survival. First, the argument is made against the use of repression (stick) by autocrats given its backlash effect. This falls in line with similar arguments made in past scholarly research on the topic. The contribution primarily comes from the second argument in favor of independent judiciaries (carrot) as a non-violent alternative strategy. Judicial independence is introduced as a legitimate channel through which individuals can address their grievances, discouraging these grievances form manifesting into acts of violence. Theoretical arguments are tested first empirically through traditional aggregate level data analysis for authoritarian states between 1948-2007 period. Additional testing is done at the individual level of analysis, by running an experiment using Amazon's Mechanical Turk to assess individual decision-making. Findings demonstrate that repression is associated with an increased probability of experiencing civil conflict and being violently removed from power, while judicial independence decreases these probabilities.
Download or read book The Logic of Authoritarian Bargains written by Raj M. Desai and published by . This book was released on 2007-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Dictatorships do not survive by repression alone. Rather, dictatorial rule is often explained as an "authoritarian bargain" by which citizens relinquish political rights for economic security. The applicability of the authoritarian bargain to decision-making in non-democratic states, however, has not been thoroughly examined. We conceptualize this bargain as a simple, repeated game between a representative citizen and an autocrat who faces the threat of insurrection, and where economic benefits and political rights are simultaneoudly determined according to the opportunity costs the regime faces in providing these "goods." Our model yields precise implications for the empirical patterns that are expected to exist. Tests of a system of equatins with panel data comprising over 45 non-democratic states between 1984 and 1999 confirm the generality of the authoritarian-bargain thesis. The bargain, however, tends to break down in muilitary or in highly-repressive dictatorships"-- p.4.
Download or read book Research Handbook on Economic Sanctions written by van Bergeijk, Peter A.G. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter van Bergeijk brings together 40 leading experts from all continents to analyze state-of-the-art data covering the sharp increase in (smart) sanctions in the last decade. Original chapters provide detailed analyses on the determinants of sanction success and failure, complemented with research on the impact of sanctions.
Download or read book Seeing Us in Them written by Cigdem V. Sirin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Group empathy across lines of difference is a major force for reducing conflict, promoting cooperation, and counteracting ethnonationalism.
Download or read book Bootstrapping Democracy written by Gianpaolo Baiocchi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking closely at eight cities in Brazil, comparing those that carried out participatory budgeting reforms between 1997 and 2000 with those that did not, the authors examine whether and how institutional reforms take effect. Bootstrapping Democracy highlights the importance of local-level innovations and democratic advances, charting a middle path between those who theorize that globalization hollows out democracy and those who celebrate globalization as a means of fostering democratic values. Uncovering the state's role in creating an "associational environment," it reveals the contradictory ways institutional reforms shape the democratic capabilities of civil society and how outcomes are conditioned by relations between the state and civil society.
Download or read book Democracy Nationalism And Communalism written by Asma Barlas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although India and Pakistan were part of a single state until liberation from British colonial rule in 1947, the former has since emerged as the world's largest "democracy, whereas the latter has been under military control for most of its history. In this thought-provoking volume, Asma Barlas explores the complex and delicate issue of democracy in
Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Repression in Bahrain written by Marc Owen Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From torture to fake news, this book lays out how the Bahrain regime has used political repression and violence to fight social movements.
Download or read book World Protests written by Isabel Ortiz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy movement to the social uprisings in Latin America. There are periods in history when large numbers of people have rebelled against the way things are, demanding change, such as in 1848, 1917, and 1968. Today we are living in another time of outrage and discontent, a time that has already produced some of the largest protests in world history. This book analyzes almost three thousand protests that occurred between 2006 and 2020 in 101 countries covering over 93 per cent of the world population. The study focuses on the major demands driving world protests, such as those for real democracy, jobs, public services, social protection, civil rights, global justice, and those against austerity and corruption. It also analyzes who was demonstrating in each protest; what protest methods they used; who the protestors opposed; what was achieved; whether protests were repressed; and trends such as inequality and the rise of women’s and radical right protests. The book concludes that the demands of protestors in most of the protests surveyed are in full accordance with human rights and internationally agreed-upon UN development goals. The book calls for policy-makers to listen and act on these demands.
Download or read book Social Movements Cultural Memory and Digital Media written by Samuel Merrill and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collected volume is the first to study the interface between contemporary social movements, cultural memory and digital media. Establishing the digital memory work practices of social movements as an important area of research, it reveals how activists use digital media to lay claim to, circulate and curate cultural memories. Interdisciplinary in scope, its contributors address mobilizations of mediated remembrance in the USA, Germany, Sweden, Italy, India, Argentina, the UK and Russia.
