Repression and Dissent: New Directions in Research

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

The rise of authoritarian challenges to democracies around the world has brought into focus the importance of resolving and extending the study of government repression in the 21st century. This panel consists of five studies, each of which extend our methodological approach - and substantive understanding - of repression and dissent in meaningful ways.

Sub Unit

• Division 21: Conflict Processes

Individual Presentations

• When Does Repression Produce Backlash? A Global Analysis - Jacob S. Lewis, Washington State University; Brandon Ives, Seoul National University

• Subnational Variation in Repression: Spatial, Actor, and Issues - Brandon Ives, Seoul National University; Jacob S. Lewis, Washington State University

• Of Moderates and Radicals - Nasir Almasri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chair

• Travis B. Curtice Drexel University

Discussant

• Jacob S. Lewis Washington State University