Novel Approaches to Studying Consequences of Repression

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Our panel brings together researchers forging new approaches to studying the consequences of repression. The papers explore how different socialization processes under authoritarianism influence political behavior after democratic transition in Tunisia, how negative shocks to state capacity change autocrats’ strategies of as well as individuals’ responses to repression, how non-violent forms of repression shape artistic production after democratic transition in Argentina, and how repression has downstream effects that increase state penetration into society and thus render the antithetical complementarity of repression and cooptation in Turkey. Collectively, by embracing varied theoretical paradigms and diverse methodologies, the papers on this panel will initiate a vibrant dialogue on how processes of repression redefine state-society relations in both authoritarian and post-revolutionary contexts.

Sub Unit

• Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy

Individual Presentations

• Employment Denial as Repression: Evidence from Argentina's Film Industry - Jane Esberg, University of Pennsylvania

• Legacies of Repression and Pre-democratic Partisanship - Alexandra Domike Blackman, Cornell University; Daniel L. Tavana, Penn State; Elizabeth R. Nugent, Princeton University; Nicholas John Lotito, Princeton University

• States of Terror: Politics in the Shadow of Violence - Yuri M. Zhukov, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Arturas Rozenas, New York University

• Tough Love: The Complementarity of Repression and Co-optation in Restive Regions - Huseyin Emre Ceyhun, Princeton University

Chair

• Thomas Pepinsky Cornell University

Discussant

• Thomas Pepinsky Cornell University