Backlash

• In Event: Repression in Authoritarian Regimes and Backlash

Brief Overview

We develop a theory highlighting three mechanisms responsible for backlash—anger, strategic feedback, and learning—and explore important empirical challenges that hinder the ability to connect each mechanism to empirical strategies

Authors

• Scott Allen Tyson, University of Rochester

• Jessica Sun, Emory University

• Emily Hencken Ritter, Vanderbilt University