The Death and Life of State Repression: Understanding Onset, Escalation, Termination, and Recurrence

by Christian Davenport and Benjamin Appel

Book Overview

The Death and Life of State Repression addresses a problem that dates back at least 75 years, if not before. Since World War II, individuals and institutions from around the world have been concerned with state repression/human rights violations and since about 1990, a robust empirical literature has emerged to investigate what drives this behavior up or down (i.e., exploring variation). While useful, this work has generally ignored important aspects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197654924
• ISBN13: 9780197654927
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"