To Repress or Not To Repress: How State Leaders Respond to Low-Scale Dissent in Africa

• In Event: Corruption, Crime, and Political Participation

Brief Overview

We present that conditioning on the levels of current repression in the regime, modes of dissent and past interactions with the challenging group, African leaders make various decisions on how to deal with the dissenters.

Authors

• Lucie Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Dennis Lu-Chung Weng, Sam Houston State University