Contention and Regime Change in Asia

Maduz, Linda

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49220-5

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Repression can be defined as a "physical coercion of challengers" (Tarrow 1994), a conceptualization that gives enough room to measure repression as, for example, a binary variable that captures the presence or absence of repressive actions by authorities in reaction to protest (Maduz 2020), or a continuous variable using the number of arrests during a specific protest event (Mausolf 2017). Despite extensive previous research, there have been few efforts to conceptualize and measure repression in a more disaggregated manner, allowing to assess exactly which types of repressive actions succeed in demobilizing protesters, and which end up causing the opposite.…”

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Backlash Effect of State Coercion: Protest Resilience Under Costly and Targeted Repression

Castro¹

2022

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The impact of police repression on protest has been a central topic in the research on collective action and mobilization. While in some contexts, repression can deter protest, other times it backfires, increasing mobilization and its intensity. But still, we have relatively little knowledge of exactly \textit{which} repressive actions are associated with deterrence or incitement of protest activity, and why. Using novel data on protest repression in Chile, I study the effect of repressive actions over the occurrence of subsequent protest events, and whether specific forms of repression (such as arrests, beatings, or the use of non-lethal weapons, among others) have a differentiated effect over protest dynamics. I find that repression through non-lethal weapons, which includes the use of rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons aimed at crowd control does not deter protest but increases their occurrence in the following days. Conversely, other forms of repression do not have an effect on protest occurrence. These results indicate that repression does not account for protest decline and that visible forms of state coercion, such as the use of non-lethal weapons, can increase contentious activities potentially through the generation of public commotion.

show abstract

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Backlash Effect of State Coercion: Protest Resilience Under Costly and Targeted Repression

Castro¹

2022

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Contention and Regime Change in Asia

Cited by 1 publication

References 0 publications

The Backlash Effect of State Coercion: Protest Resilience Under Costly and Targeted Repression

The Backlash Effect of State Coercion: Protest Resilience Under Costly and Targeted Repression

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About