Preventing before Suppressing: An Informational Mechanism of Preventive Repression in Modern Autocracies

• In Event: Authoritarian Politics

Brief Overview

I shed light on the protest deterrence mechanism of preventive repression in autocracies and, within the Bayesian persuasion framework, address the question of how a third player can hamper the communication between Receiver and Persuader.

Author

• Anastasia Gergel, National Research University Higher School of Economics