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This statement illustrates that, contrary to the expectation of the repression literature that repression is a decisive constraint on social movements, dissidents under repression have agency and can respond to repression by adopting different strategies.
Repression is the threat to subdue or act of subduing someone by institutional or physical force. Political violence is a particular form of repression involving the threat to use or actual use of physical force to achieve political goals.
Repression refers to the act of suppressing or restraining individuals or groups, often through force, to prevent dissent or opposition. It plays a crucial role in revolutionary movements and social change by maintaining the status quo and stifling efforts to challenge existing power structures.
REPRESSION definition: 1. the use of force or violence to control a group of people: 2. the process and effect of keeping…. Learn more.
Apr 28, 2022 · In this article, we propose a conceptual framework that attends to the causes, content and consequences of protest control. We use it to examine interaction between actors in the PRVE arena and to highlight issues that are underexplored in repression research.
This chapter surveys the highly productive literature on political repression and asks three closely related questions: (1) what causes political repression? (2) what are its effects?, and (3) what stops political repression?
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Jun 14, 2023 · We examined whether political repression deters citizens from engaging in anti-government behaviour (its intended goal) or in fact motivates it.
