Repression, Group Threat, and the Threat Environment

• In Event: JSS: Why and How Do States Use Repression?

Brief Overview

The threat posed by a group is at least partially relational – its characteristics matter, but so do the characteristics of all the other groups around it. Changing the set of groups will change how the government reacts to the target.

Author

• Peter Dominic Carey, University of California-Merced