Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"State repression"”.
-
State repression, nonviolence, and protest mobilization
… direct action, along with Hess and Martin's repression backfire, in order to deepen our understanding of how state repression impacts protest mobilization and historical processes of social change. After initially problematizing Gene Sharp’s notions of power and consent with aid of political …
-
The Politics of Protest and State Repression in Authoritarian Regimes
… authoritarian governments under the threats of state repression? How does mobilization behaviors interact with state responses (e.g. state repression)? Why do opposition parties participate and mobilize protesters in authoritarian elections? Using new protest event data, I first show that in …
-
Violence After Victory: Explaining Variation in State Repression Following Contentious Politics
… many regimes with obvious incentives to curb repression (especially democracies) fail to do so. In addition to regime-type, therefore, the answer depends on whether a given regime can count on the cooperation of its military and law enforcement institutions, which I refer to collectively as …
-
Civil Unrest in the Untied State of America: Facing the Threat
… purpose and function of the police in a modern state. It draws mainly from the ideas put forth by Walter Benjamin in his 1921 essay, Critique of Violence, and focuses exclusively on the events surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement. By applying political theory to concrete events, it …
-
The failure of the SADC organ : regional security arrangements in southern Africa, 1992-2003
… in Angola, a rebellion and full-blown war with state belligerents in the Democratic Republic of Congo and state repression and violence in Zimbabwe. In these circumstances SADC had a woeful record of peacemaking and was distinguished chiefly by its fractious internal quarrels. The major …
-
Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Bolivia, 2000-2005
… consciousness, and fierce but insufficient state repression, explain the depth, breadth, and radical character of recent left-indigenous mobilizations in Bolivia. The coalition of insurrectionary social forces in the Gas Wars of 2003 and 2005 was led by indigenous informal workers, acting in …
-
Labour Unions, Political and the Development of the Swazi Labour Movement 1939-2014.
… of an authoritarian non-party Tinkhundla state led to the development of the Swazi labour movement in Swaziland. Whereas different scholars have analysed labour relations in Swaziland no study has been conducted to trace the development of the labour movement in the country. This study …
-
Mediating Gender Violence: "Witnessing Publics," Activism, and the Ethics of Human Rights Claim Making
… By ethics I mean the deliberate use of morals, stated or unstated, in the representation of human rights abuses. In New York, my research focuses on the production, launch, and circulation of a United Nations shadow report on violence against indigenous women. In Belize, I contextualize …
-
Soul power: the Black church and the Black Power Movement in Cairo, Illinois, 1969-74
… and ecumenical organizations operating at the state and national level. As support for traditional civil rights organizations waned and faith in the War on Poverty dwindled, this dissertation shows that churches became a significant, albeit overlooked, source of coalitional support for the …
-
The fall of Hosni Mubarak: Skocpol's structural approach
… at maintaining momentum in the face of state repression, including an analysis of the role of social media.
-
The political economy of labor and student mobilizations in egypt 1919 - 2011 : a social movement theory approach
… the thesis argues that threats such as state-attributed economic problems, erosion of rights and state repression have also affected mobilizations by both movements. In addition, despite the authoritarian nature of successive Egyptian regimes, the labor and student movement were at times …
-
Selective Suppression: Relations between Civil Society Organizations and the State in Zimbabwe
… that have previously been suppressed by the state, currently experience any change in their relations with the state under the Mnangagwa Presidency. I adopted a case study approach to comparatively assess the experiences of two civil society organizations relations with the state over a two- …
-
Red scare Britain: anti-communism in British government and politics during the early Cold War, 1945-56
… different facets of the British nation including state policies, political rhetoric, party politics, and the trade union movement. To this end, the thesis argues, in hindsight, an overreaction to the threat of communism occurred during the period: a red scare predicated on the fear of fifth …
-
Diversionary Repression in Electoral Autocracies: Crisis Onset, Loss-Domain Conditions, and State Escalation
… examines when and why governments escalate repression during political crises, focusing specifically on how a leader's perceived "domain of losses" drives coercive behavior. Bridging research on state repression, electoral authoritarianism, and prospect theory, the thesis argues that …
-
"Lesbianas Presente:" Lesbian Activism, Transnational Alliances, and the State in Mexico City, 1968-1991
… influence on civil society. Confronting this state repression as well as increasing economic instability throughout the 1980s, Mexican lesbian activists organized in coalitions with local, national, and international actors defending gay, lesbian, and human rights and pressing for the …
-
Transnational Connections of the Mexican Left with the Chicano Movement, 1960s-1970s
… and associated Mexican nationalism with state repression and political manipulation. Further complicating Chicana/o-Mexican relations were issues of discrimination, classism, and prejudice between them, which I argue had a greater impact in shaping their claims of political solidarity …
-
The Role of State and Non-State Actors in Determining Violent and Nonviolent Tactics in Political Conflict
… forms of opposition. This thesis focuses on state and non-state actors to elucidate how these can shape the type of opposition tactics. The first paper takes a macro perspective and argues that the state and its repressive repertoire determine the likelihood of violent and nonviolent …
-
Institutionalization, repression and political instability in authoritarian regimes
… politics focuses on the use of co-optation and repression to explain how autocrats mitigate the hazardous conditions under which they rule. The former induce compliance and co-operation by providing social and material benefits, while the latter forces with the threat of physical punishment. …
-
An Alternative Press? New Forms of News Reporting in Brazil
… to enhance debates on issues such as racism, state repression and social and gender inequality in Brazil.
-
Urban Basis of Political Protest in Syria: Explaining: Divergent Patterns of Mobilisation and Demobilisation
… to sustain control of these spaces under severe repression. Consequently, mobilisation shifted into inner streets and neighbourhood squares, producing sharp intra-city divergence, with some neighbourhoods becoming central hubs of contention, while adjacent areas, exposed to comparable repressive …
Page 1 of 2