Paths to State Repression
Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics
Published on 15. March 2000
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-8476-9390-0 (ISBN)
Description
In the last ten years, there has been a resurgence of interest in repression and violence within states. Paths to State Repression improves our understanding of why states use political repression, highlighting its relationship to dissent and mass protest. The authors draw upon a wide variety of political-economic contexts, methodological approaches, and geographic locales, including Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Israel, Eastern Europe, and Africa. This book is invaluable to all who wish to better understand why central authorities violate and restrict human rights and how states can break their cycles of conflict.
Reviews / Votes
All students of repression and dissent owe a debt to Christian Davenport and his collaborators, not only for assembling important evidence about how repression and dissent work in today's world, but also for looking hard at the way one incites the other-as well as thinking through conditions and interventions that might reverse vicious cycles of mutual destruction. -- Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University A treasure-trove of articles.... Most repression research of the future will undoubtedly cite Paths to State Repression. * American Political Science Review * It is a treasure-trove of useful articles with references. This book will further enhance Davenport's reputation as a leading scholar in the field of political repression. * American Political Science Review * The contributors to this timely volume tell us a lot about how democracy and human rights, on the one hand, and state repression and political coercion, on the other, influence social movements and political conflict. These original essays will be widely read and appreciated. -- Mark I. Lichbach, University of California, RiversideMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8476-9390-0 (9780847693900)
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Paths to State Repression
Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics
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Persons
Christian Davenport is associate professor of government and politics and senior fellow and director of research for the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Domestic Threats, Dissent, and State Repression Chapter 3 Domestic Threats: The Abuse of Personal Integrity Chapter 4 Political Repression: Threat Perception and Transnational Solidarity Groups Chapter 5 Protest Targeting and Repression: Campaigns against Water Projects in Indonesia Part 6 Part II: Exploring Dynamic Interactions Chapter 7 Coercion and Protest: An Empirical Test Revisited Chapter 8 Why Are Collective Conflicts Stable? Chapter 9 Mobilization, Opportunity Structure, and Polity Responsiveness: The Role of Repression in the Intifada Part 10 Part III: Bringing the State Back In (Again) Chapter 11 Protest, Democratization, and Human Rights in Africa Chapter 12 8 Exploring the Ameliorating Effects of Democracy on Political Repression: Cross-National Evidence