Government coercion: An exploratory analysis

McNitt, Andrew D.

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“…And Harff and Gurr (1988) developed the work of Lasswell to demonstrate how the “coercive state's” police institutions were established and expanded as a direct result of wars and civil wars (Lasswell & Stanley, 1997). Here, we may also refer to Mcnitt (1995) finding that the state used torture and detentions to a greater extent when the external threat was greater (p. 100).…”

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Beyond genocide: Towards an improved analysis and understanding of the Syrian regime's mass atrocity crimes in the Syrian Civil War

Bakkour

2023

Digest Mid East Studies

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In the course of the Syrian Civil War, prominent former Syrian Regime politicians, human rights observers, and foreign observers have accused the Syrian Regime of committing genocide against the country's Sunni majority. This article views these accusations as part of a wider politicization of genocide, and instead progresses beyond them to outline the case for an alternative “framing” of large‐scale atrocities committed against civilians. It accordingly proposes strategic displacement, or the deliberate large‐scale uprooting and dispersal of established communities for tactical and strategic purposes, as a preferable and more sustainable framework of engagement and analysis, and seeks to more clearly distinguish it from “ethnic cleansing” with the aim of demonstrating and underlining its unique contribution to the analysis and understanding of violent conflict. This has two benefits—first, it provides a different basis for conceptual and theoretical engagement that makes it possible to view mass atrocity as a tactical innovation in response to conflict exigencies; and second, it draws attention to internal displacement, an aspect of the conflict that has been repeatedly overlooked by international observers.

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“…Here, we may also refer to Mcnitt (1995) finding that the state used torture and detentions to a greater extent when the external threat was greater (p. 100).…”

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Beyond genocide: Towards an improved analysis and understanding of the Syrian regime's mass atrocity crimes in the Syrian Civil War

Bakkour

2023

Digest Mid East Studies

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“…Recently, these two literatures have begun to intersect as comparativists have begun examining the causes of human rights repression, while human rights scholars have 1 For an overview of this literature, see the following: Cohan (1975, 1976); Strouse and Claude (1976); ; Park (1987); Boswell and Dixon (1990); Davis and Ward (1990); Alfatooni and Allen (1991); McNitt (1995); Regan (1995); Davenport (1996b); Gartner and Regan (1996); Meyer (1996); Richards (1999a, 1999b); Keith (1999); Smith, Bolyard, and Ippolito (1999); Apodaca (2001); Hathaway (2002); Walker and Poe (2002);Hafner-Burton andTsutsui (2005, 2007); Hafner-Burton (2008); Conrad and Moore (2010); Murdie and Davis (2010); Sorens and Ruger (2012); Cingranelli, Fajardo-Heyward, Filippov (2014).…”

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Human rights in presidential democracies : does a runoff rule reduce repression?

Holzer¹

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I argue that within a democratic context the presence of a presidential runoff rule leads to the following outcomes: a reduced distance between the ideological position of the president and the median voter, a reduced percent of the cabinet in the same party as the president, and a reduced likelihood that the president is elected without a majority. Additionally, I argue that a large distance between the ideological position of the president and the median voter, cabinets comprised of a high percent of members in the same party as the president, and presidents elected without a majority are all negatively associated with high government respect for human rights. Since the presence of a runoff rule reduces determinants that are in turn negatively associated with high government respect for human rights, the presence of a runoff rule is likely positively associated with high government respect for human rights. Ultimately, I find that democratic presidential elections held using a runoff rule produce presidents that are less likely to be associated with lower government respect for human rights, and more likely to be associated with greater government respect for human rights. In order to promote government respect for human rights, I suggest that constitutional designers embrace the idea of instituting a presidential runoff rule. Simply put: a relatively easy way to reduce repression is to add the possibility of a runoff round to all democratic presidential elections.

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State-Sponsored Mass Murder

Krain

1997

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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The author argues that openings in the political opportunity structure, rather than the levels of concentration of power, best predict the onset of genocides or politicides and which states will engage in the most severe state-sponsored mass murder. These and other hypotheses are tested. Analysis of logit models reveals that civil war involvement is the most consistent predictor of the onset of genocides or politicides, and other political opportunity structure variables have some effects, especially when in combination with at least one of the other political opportunity structure variables. Analysis of negative binomial event-count models also reveals that political opportunity structure variables best account for the degree of severity of a given genocide or politicide. In sum, openings in the political opportunity structure are more important in understanding what affects the onset and degree of severity of genocides and politicides than other more static variables.

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Government coercion: An exploratory analysis

Cited by 4 publications

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Beyond genocide: Towards an improved analysis and understanding of the Syrian regime's mass atrocity crimes in the Syrian Civil War

Beyond genocide: Towards an improved analysis and understanding of the Syrian regime's mass atrocity crimes in the Syrian Civil War

Human rights in presidential democracies : does a runoff rule reduce repression?

State-Sponsored Mass Murder

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