The States Must Be Crazy: Dissent and the Puzzle of Repressive Persistence
According to forty years worth of research, dissent always increases repression whereas state coercive behavior has a range of different influences on dissident activity. If the outcome of government action is uncertain, why do authorities continue to apply repression? We explore this “puzzle of rep...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Bielefeld
2012-05-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Conflict and Violence |
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| Online Access: | http://ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/187/pdf_51 |