Protest, Repression and Political Regimes: An Empirical Analysis of Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

ISBN-13: 9780415424844 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 12 str.

Sabine C. Carey

Opis

This volume investigates the relationship between protest, repression and political regimes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Considering how different political regimes use repression and respond to popular protest, this book analyzes the relationship between protest and repression in Africa and Latin America between the late 1970s and the beginning of the twenty first century. Drawing on theories, multi-method empirical analyses and case studies, the author of this volume sets out to investigate the reciprocal dynamics between protest and repression. Distinctive features of this volume include:

• quantitative analyses that highlight general trends in the protest-repression relationship
• case studies of different political regimes in Chile and Nigeria, emphasising the dynamics at the micro-level
• an emphasis on the importance of full democratization in order to reduce the risk, and intensity, of intra-state conflict

Focusing on political regimes in different areas of the world, Protest, Repression and Political Regimes will be of vital interest to students and scholars of conflict studies, human rights and social movements.

This book seeks to understand and provide an empirical analysis of the relationship between protest and repression. Sabine C. Carey explores and tests different theories of how governments respond to dissent and how dissidents respond to repression using extensive empirical data and detailed studies on Latin America and Africa.

Using a multidimensional approach, the volume pays particular attention to how different political institutions (democracies, semi-democracies and authoritarian regimes) and regime characteristics (political instability and regime duration) influence the interaction between the government and opposing forces. While drawing on detailed technical data, the author presents the results in an accessible format that focuses on the substantive meanings and the implications of the empirical findings.

Protest, Repression and Political Regimes will be of interest to students and scholars of social movements, political violence, democracy, peace/conflict studies, human rights, sociology and those with a particular interest in Latin America and Africa.

O autorze

Sabine C. Carey is Associate Professor and Reader in Political Science and Co-Director of the Centre for International Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution, University of Nottingham. She is also Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and her research interests include conflict processes, human rights violations and democratization.