Private Politics in the Shadow of Repression: A Model of Repression Against Movements Targeting Non-State Actors

• In Event: Protest, Repression, Escalation II

Brief Overview

When political survival is not at stake, governments can use repression as a way to identify the most aggrieved and organized groups that would be to costly to ignore, while discouraging mobilization by the rest.

Author

• Dogus Aktan, University of Denver