The Death and Life of State Repression

Understanding Onset, Escalation, Termination, and Recurrence

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Christian Davenport, Benjamin Appel, University of Michigan) Davenport, Christian (Walgreen Professor of the Study of Human Understanding, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate, Walgreen Professor of the Study of Human Understanding, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate, the Institute for Social Research, San Diego) Appel, Benjamin (Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-12-16
Mått237 x 153 x 14 mm
Vikt345 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197654927

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Christian Davenport is the Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Professor of the Study of Human Understanding, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and Elected Fellow at the American Association for the Arts and Sciences. Benjamin J. Appel is Associate Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego.

This book is a comprehensive, ambitious, and sober analysis of the life cycles of large-scale spells of state repression. Most importantly, Davenport and Appell find that domestic politics—not international politics—are the most crucial in curtailing the onset, escalation, and persistence of state repression. For all its imperfections, democracy tends to prevent a state from initiating mass violence, and nonviolent civil resistance tends to prevent such repression from escalating. This book upends much of what we thought we knew about state repression--and what can be done to stop it. A must-read.