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When Leaders Repress: A Study of African States
| Title: | When Leaders Repress: A Study of African States. |
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| Name(s): |
Timmerman, Ashley, Author Dolan, Thomas, Committee Chair Mirilovic, Nikola, Committee Member Kinsey, Barbara, Committee Member University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2014 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | When do leaders choose state-sponsored repression as a response to certain threats to the state? Conventional wisdom states that authoritarian regimes will be more likely to use these repressive acts in order to maintain law and order, as well as to suppress the opposition. However, previous literature on the subject fails to recognize the effect of irregular civil wars on this decision, as well as the types of repression that will (-) or will not (-) be used against citizens. I analyze cross-sectional time series data in 46 African states between 1990 and 2010 on human rights violations and their causes. The key independent variable is irregular civil war, but I also look at the effects of protest movements and domestic terror attacks to find the levels of human rights violations and the specific type of human rights violations used. Irregular civil war is the most important indicator for human rights violations, specifically, the use of killing and disappearances to silence the opposition and end the warfare. | |
| Identifier: | CFE0005428 (IID), ucf:50412 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
2014-08-01 M.A. Sciences, Political Science Masters This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): | repression -- Africa -- irregular civil war -- human rights violations | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005428 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | public 2014-08-15 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
