The death and life of state repression [electronic resource] : understanding onset, escalation, termination and recurrence / Christian Davenport, Benjamin J. Appel.

"The Death and Life of State Repression provides insight into 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 violation and since about 1990 a robust empirical li...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Davenport, Christian, 1965- (Author)
Appel, Benjamin J. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Political persecution.
Human rights.
Democratization.
Online Access:
Oxford Scholarship Online 2022: 2022 (Oxford Academic)
University Press Scholarship Online Complete Collection: 2022 (Oxford Academic)
Variant Title:
The Death and Life of State Repression: Understanding Onset, Escalation, Termination, and Recurrence
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Old and new directions in the study of state repression
  • Studying spells : a new unit of analysis, measure, and model
  • Starting spells
  • Escalating spells
  • Ending spells
  • Recurring spells
  • Cases
  • What we can do to better understand, prevent, reduce, and end repressive spells.