Recent events have profoundly changed our ways of understanding and studying contentious politics. With case studies that range from Germany to Guatemala, the authors take up topics as varied as the dynamic interactions between protesters and policing agents, distinctions between "hard" and "soft" repression, the impact of media on our understanding of political contention, the timing and shape of protest and resistance cycles, and how measurements of social and geographic control influence states' responses to insurgencies. Together these essays synthesize what we know about repression and...
Recent events have profoundly changed our ways of understanding and studying contentious politics. With case studies that range from Germany to Guatem...
In was the summer of 2001 when political scientists and sociologists gathered at the University of Virginia to present new information and assess the status of study about political mobilization and political repression. The 10 papers presented and printed here focus on interactions between protesters and police; case studies come from Germany, the
In was the summer of 2001 when political scientists and sociologists gathered at the University of Virginia to present new information and assess the ...
Mexico ranks highly on many of the measures that have proven significant for creating a positive human rights record, including democratization, good health and life expectancy, and engagement in the global economy. Yet the nation's most vulnerable populations suffer human rights abuses on a large scale, such as gruesome killings in the Mexican drug war, decades of violent feminicide, migrant deaths in the U.S. desert, and the ongoing effects of the failed detention and deportation system in the States. Some atrocities have received extensive and sensational coverage, while others have...
Mexico ranks highly on many of the measures that have proven significant for creating a positive human rights record, including democratization, go...