Repression research examines the causes and consequences of actions or policies that are
meant to, or actually do, raise the costs of activism, protest, and/or social movement activity …

Studies about authoritarianism build the foundation of legal mobilization scholarship and
continue to advance this area of sociolegal research. The contributions of these studies …

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that
characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to …

On 25 January 2011, Egyptian police shot and killed Mustafa Ragab Mahmoud, a nineteen-
year-old high school dropout, in the Arbayeen district of the Suez. Mahmoud, one of several …

In Europe, as in the rest of the Western world, scholarly interest in social movements
developed with the wave of protest that, in the late sixties, shook confidence in the 'end of …

" Eight years after the Arab Spring there is still much debate over the link between Internet
technology and protest against authoritarian regimes. While the debate has advanced …

When and why do people obey political authority when it runs against their own interests to
do so? This book is about the channels beyond direct repression through which China's …

Following the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,
and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest …

In recent years, Indigenous peoples have lead a number of high profile movements fighting
for social and environmental justice in Canada. From land struggles to struggles against …

This chapter examines the multiple roles of threat in stimulating collective action. It seeks to
establish a greater balance between threats and opportunities in the current literature …