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Paper explores the link between types of authoritarian regimes and violent and nonviolent dissent.
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19 p.
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Abstract: This study examines the effect authoritarian regimes have on non-violent and violent dissent. In particular, it focuses on how regime structures play a role in the conscious decisions made by opposition forces to engage in peaceful or conflictual resistance. In contrast to other studies, this work disaggregates authoritarian regimes into three different categories: single-party, military, and personalist. Using a negative binomial regression model on a cross-sectional time series data set, with regime type variables from Geddes, Wright, and Frantz (2013), and control variables from Fearon and Laitin (2003), this study examines the global occurrence of dissent. Evidence reveals single party and personalist regimes have an inverse relationship with both forms of dissent. Additionally, military regimes have no impact on dissent type. This article interprets the negative relationship between single party and personalist regimes and proposes an explanation for the absence of a link between military regimes and dissent.
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The Eagle Feather
Launched in 2004 by UNT's Honors College, The Eagle Feather was an interdisciplinary undergraduate research journal that promoted the work of students and their faculty mentors. The Eagle Feather was published annually until 2017 when it transitioned into the North Texas Journal of Undergraduate Research.
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