Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics

by Christian Davenport, George Aditjondro, Ronald Francisco, Linda Camp Keith retired clinical professor at the University of Texas at Dallas

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847693900
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/15/2000
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

A treasure-trove of articles.... Most repression research of the future will undoubtedly cite Paths to State Repression.

American Political Science Review

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

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