This chapter reviews the empirical literature on human rights and repression and utilizes the
model to bring some order to the many propositions and findings arising from this literature …

This crossnational study seeks to explain variations in governmental repression of human
rights to personal integrity (state terrorism) in a 153-country sample during the eighties. We …

Regimes respond to domestic threats with political repression. The precise nature of the
domestic threat itself, however, is subject to discussion. State repression is a function of …

I investigate how and why the Shah's policies of accommodation and repression escalated
the revolutionary mobilization of the Iranian population. Several major theories …

Here we seek to build on our earlier research (Poe and Tate, 1994) by re-testing similar
models on a data set covering a much longer time span; the period from 1976 to 1993 …

Theory: Two expected utility theories and one psychological/resource mobilization theory of
the impact of repression on dissent are tested in this study. Hypotheses: Lichbach (1987) …

When are governments most likely to use election violence, and what factors can mitigate
government incentives to resort to violence? How do the dynamics of election violence differ …

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 …

A dictator's motivation for using repression is fairly clear, but why some repress more than
others or favor particular types of repressive strategies is less obvious. Using statistical …

How does regional interdependence influence the prospects for conflict, integration, and
democratization? Some researchers look at the international system at large and disregard …