available measures of insurgency: (1) attacks against government and allied forces and (2) violence that kill civilians … of insurgent attacks that kill civilians. The authors identify several potential explanations, introducing the notion of …

recruits. To test this hypothesis, we draw on original survey data collected in the context of the MFDC insurgency in southern …

-altering effects of civil wars abroad and increase repression at home to preempt potential rebellion. Using a Bayesian hierarchical …

authoritarian repression. Dictators must deter those who are excluded from power from challenging them. When underlying, polity …

. I develop a theory of government killing that accounts not only for the government’s decision to kill civilians but … supporting the government decreases the likelihood that a government orders civilians killed. Intervention against the government …

Although overt repression has been studied extensively (e.g., mass arrests), there have been no rigorous investigations …, evidence reveals that CRA responds to dissent, lagged repression, and the level of economic development within a neighborhood …

Research on protest and repression has shown that state coercion may result in increased mobilization or effectively … deter further challenges. The nature of dissident responses to repression is largely context-based. In Burma, as the … analytic narrative seeks to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between protest and repression and enrich the …