Scholars have offered several types of explanations regarding how international human
rights pressure can shape state behavior. Some of these explanations are rationalist …

Although scholarly consensus suggests that dissent causes repression, the behaviors are
endogenous: governments and dissidents act in expectation of each other's behavior …

Strangely enough, while the pictures used to illustrate the most recent wave of protests for
democracy in North Africa represent mass protest, research on social movements and …

Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries,
much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights …

Despite the importance of research on repression to the study of social movements, few
researchers have focused on developing a refined and powerful conceptualization of …

This study contributes to our understanding of the dynamic relationship between protest and
repression. It employs vector autoregressions to analyze daily data from six Latin American …

This book is the first detailed study of the causes of de-radicalization in armed Islamist
movements. It is based on frontline research that includes interviews with Jihadist leaders …

If social movements are an attempt by “outsiders” to gain leverage within politics, then one
might expect the global spread of democracy to reduce social movement activity. This article …

This article addresses a puzzle: dictatorships that practice torture are more likely to accede
to the UN Convention Against Torture (CAT) than dictatorships that do not practice torture. I …

Black Americans are 3.5 times and Black teenagers are 21 times more likely to be killed by
police than their White counterparts. Generally, protective factors such as social class do …