Paths to State Repression - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paths to State Repression write by Christian Davenport. This book was released on 2000-03-15. Paths to State Repression available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last ten years, there has been a resurgence of interest in repression and violence within states. Paths to State Repression improves our understanding of why states use political repression, highlighting its relationship to dissent and mass protest. The authors draw upon a wide variety of political-economic contexts, methodological approaches, and geographic locales, including Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Israel, Eastern Europe, and Africa. This book is invaluable to all who wish to better understand why central authorities violate and restrict human rights and how states can break their cycles of conflict.
Paths to State Repression
Paths to State Repression - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paths to State Repression write by Christian Davenport. This book was released on 2000. Paths to State Repression available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work seeks to improve our understanding of why states use political repression, highlighting its relationship to dissent and mass protest. The authors draw upon a variety of political-economic contexts, methodological approaches, and geographic locales
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements write by Donatella Della Porta. This book was released on 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Handbook presents a most updated and comprehensive exploration of social movement research. It not only maps, but also expands the field of social movement studies, taking stock of recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. While structured around traditional social movement concepts, each section combines the mapping of the state of the art with attempts to broaden our knowledge of social movements beyond classic theoretical agendas, and to identify the contribution that social movement studies can give to other fields of knowledge.
What Every Radical Should Know about State Repression
What Every Radical Should Know about State Repression - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Every Radical Should Know about State Repression write by Victor Serge. This book was released on 2024-05-28. What Every Radical Should Know about State Repression available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This classic manual on repression by revolutionary activist Victor Serge offers fascinating anecdotes about the tactics of police provocateurs and an analysis of the documents of the Tsarist secret police in the aftermath of the Russian revolution. With a new introduction by Howard Zinn collaborator, Anthony Arnove. “Victor Serge is one of the unsung heroes of a corrupt century.” —Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost As we approach the 100th anniversary of Victor Serge’s (1926) classic exposé of political repression, the specter of fear as a tool of political repression is chillingly familiar to us in world increasingly threatened by totalitarianism. Serge’s exposé of the surveillance methods used by the Czarist police reads like a spy thriller. An irrepressible rebel, Serge wrote this manual for political activists, describing the structures of state repression and how to dodge them—including how to avoid being followed, what to do if arrested, and tips on securing correspondence. He also explains how such repression is ultimately ineffective. “Repression can really only live off fear. But is fear enough to remove need, thirst for justice, intelligence, reason, idealism…? Relying on intimidation, the reactionaries forget that they will cause more indignation, more hatred, more thirst for martyrdom, than real fear. They only intimidate the weak; they exasperate the best forces and temper the resolution of the strongest.” —Victor Serge
State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace
State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace write by Christian Davenport. This book was released on 2007-06-04. State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Does democracy decrease state repression in line with the expectations of governments, international organizations, NGOs, social movements, academics and ordinary citizens around the world? Most believe that a 'domestic democratic peace' exists, rivalling that found in the realm of interstate conflict. Investigating 137 countries from 1976 to 1996, this book seeks to shed light on this question. Specifically, three results emerge. First, while different aspects of democracy decrease repressive behaviour, not all do so to the same degree. Human rights violations are especially responsive to electoral participation and competition. Second, while different types of repression are reduced, not all are limited at comparable levels. Personal integrity violations are decreased more than civil liberties restrictions. Third, the domestic democratic peace is not bulletproof; the negative influence of democracy on repression can be overwhelmed by political conflict. This research alters our conception of repression, its analysis and its resolution.
