Swords into Ploughshares? Why Human Rights Abuse Persists After Successful Resistance Campaigns

• In Event: Mobilization in Autocracies: Causes, Mechanisms, and Regime Reactions

Brief Overview

Why does conflict termination and democratization sometimes fail to improve human rights? Though democratization puts elected officials in power, these officials sometimes lack effective control over security officials, hindering human rights reforms

Author

• Christopher Wiley Shay, Harvard Kennedy School