عنوان

Clenching the fists of dissent: Political unrest, repression, and the evolution to civil war

شماره

TL49216

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Clenching the fists of dissent: Political unrest, repression, and the evolution to civil war

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jeremy R. Backstrom

نام ساير پديدآوران

Salehyan, Idean; Mason, T. David

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of North Texas

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016

نام خاص و کميت اثر

184

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-52086-6

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Department of Political Science

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of North Texas

امتياز متن

2016

متن يادداشت

Previous scholarship has long concentrated on the behaviors of belligerents during regime-dissident interactions. While much of the progress in the literature concentrated on the micro-level processes of this relationship, little research has focused on providing a theoretical reasoning on why belligerents choose to act in a particular manner. This project attempts to open the black box of decision making for regimes and dissidents during regime-dissident interactions in order to provide a theoretical justification for the behaviors of the belligerents involved. Moreover, this project argues that there is a relationship between the lower level events of political violence and civil war as the events at earlier stages of the conflict influence the possible outcome of civil conflict. Regimes and dissidents alike are strategic actors who conduct themselves in a manner to ensure their survival while concurrently attempting to succeed at achieving their respective goals. Although all authoritarian regimes are similar in their differences to democracies, there are significant differences between the regimes, which influence the decision making of the regime leader to ensure the survival of the political institution. In addition to influencing the decision calculus of the regimes, the behavior of the regimes impacts the probability of civil war at later stages of the interaction. Conversely, dissidents also perform as strategic actors in an attempt to gain their preferred concessions and outcomes. Although their comprehension of the coercive capacity of a regime is limited, their knowledge of the repressive capacity of the regime provides them with the understanding of their future fate if they escalate to violence against the regime. This project is conducted using two theories on regime and dissident actions and responses, two large-N empirical analyses of regime and dissident behaviors during nonviolent and violent dissident campaigns from 1945-2006, and two historical case studies of Egypt and Syria during the Arab Spring as well as the period preceding the uprising.

موضوع مستند نشده

Political science; International law

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social sciences;Authoritarian regimes;Civil war;Political unrest;Regime-dissident interactions

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Baumgardt, Julia C.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Salehyan, Idean; Mason, T. David

تقسيم فرعي

Department of Political Science

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of North Texas

شماره بازیابی

1870701192; 10307472

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y