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 reduce state repression as human rights activism, funding, and policy suggest? What are the limitations of this argument? Investigating 137 countries from 1976 to 1996, State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace seeks to shed light on these questions. Specifically, it finds that electoral participation and competition generally reduces personal integrity violations like torture and mass killing; other aspects of democracy do not wield consistent influences. This negative influence can be overwhelmed by conflict, however, and thus there are important qualifications for the peace proposition.
State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Polittics
State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Polittics - 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. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Polittics write by Christian Davenport. This book was released on 2014-05-14. State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Polittics 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? At present, 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.
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.
Freedom Under Fire Repression, Context and the Fragility of the Domestic Democratic Peace
Freedom Under Fire Repression, Context and the Fragility of 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 Freedom Under Fire Repression, Context and the Fragility of the Domestic Democratic Peace write by Christian Davenport. This book was released on 2016. Freedom Under Fire Repression, Context and the Fragility of the Domestic Democratic Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For forty years research has supported the claim that political democracy decreases state repression - the so called “domestic democratic peace.” This work has not only generated scholarly attention but it is now the cornerstone of President George W. Bush's “War against Tyranny.” Several weaknesses exist within prior literature, however, which lead me to conclude that the democratic peace within the domestic context is somewhat less straightforward than we initially anticipated. For example, examining 137 countries from 1976 to 1996, I find that: 1) while certain aspects of democracy (measures of competition/participation and executive constraints) influence repression in the expected manner, some do not (suffrage and the number of veto players); 2) the pacifying influence of democracy on repressive behavior is increased in the context of interstate war, decreased in the context of violent dissent and mixed in the context of civil war; and 3) regional democratic contexts are not as strongly supportive as one would anticipate. While there is a domestic democratic peace, therefore, it is clearly not the cure-all, universally applied mechanism of pacification that it is commonly believed to be.
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.
