Clenching the Fists of Dissent: Political Unrest, Repression, and the Evolution to Civil War
Description:
Previous scholarship has long concentrated on the behaviors of belligerents during regime-dissident interactions. While much of the progress in the literature concentrated on the micro-level processes of this relationship, little research has focused on providing a theoretical reasoning on why belligerents choose to act in a particular manner. This project attempts to open the black box of decision making for regimes and dissidents during regime-dissident interactions in order to provide a theo…
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Date:
August 2016
Creator:
Backstrom, Jeremy R.