Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847693910 ISBN 13: 9780847693917

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

Paths to State Repression This work seeks to improve our understanding of why states use political repression, highlighting its relationship to dissent and mass protest. The authors draw upon a variety of political-economic contexts, methodological approaches, and geographic locales.

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Review:

The contributors to this timely volume tell us a lot about how democracy and human rights, on the one hand, and state repression and political coercion, on the other, influence social movements and political conflict. These original essays will be widely read and appreciated.--Mark I. Lichbach, University of California, Riverside

All students of repression and dissent owe a debt to Christian Davenport and his collaborators, not only for assembling important evidence about how repression and dissent work in today's world, but also for looking hard at the way one incites the other--as well as thinking through conditions and interventions that might reverse vicious cycles of mutual destruction.--Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

A treasure-trove of articles.... Most repression research of the future will undoubtedly cite Paths to State Repression.--American Political Science Review

It is a treasure-trove of useful articles with references. This book will further enhance Davenport's reputation as a leading scholar in the field of political repression.--American Political Science Review

Synopsis:

This work seeks to improve our understanding of why states use political repression, highlighting its relationship to dissent and mass protest. The authors draw upon a variety of political-economic contexts, methodological approaches, and geographic locales, including Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Israel, Northern Ireland, Eastern Europe and Africa. It should be useful to all who wish to understand better why central authorities violate and restrict human rights and how states can break their cycles of conflict.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0847693910
• ISBN 13: 9780847693917
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Davenport Christian