It’s Time to Revisit the External Determinants of State Terror

• In Event: Human Rights and Regime Type at the Crossroads: Democracy, Repression, and Authoritarianism

Brief Overview

We study the most common mechanism of external influence posited – demonstration effects - on a state's decision to use state terror. For the first time, we also evaluate the presence of cooperation as a separate mechanism bearing on a state policy.

Authors

• Jose Aleman, Fordham University

• Dong Wook Wook Lee, Adelphi University