Thesis supervisor: Dr. A. Cooper Drury.Includes vita.During modern protest movements, the regimes targeted by dissidents have issued largely similar kinds of statements about the events. Participants tend to be depicted as national traitors, criminals, or otherwise illegitimate. This project seeks to understand the role such regime rhetoric plays in a government's resistance to protest. I develop a theory that argues that such statements are intentionally designed so as to reduce the amount of support protesters receive from the domestic population and international community by framing them as illegitimate actors. As a result, the government can prevent the growth of protests without relying on costly uses of force. I test the need and cap...
The analyses presented in this dissertation are guided by two broad questions. First, how do materia...
This dissertation analyzes when repression effectively deters dissent, and under what mechanisms do ...
This dissertation analyzes when repression effectively deters dissent, and under what mechanisms do ...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020This project explains the conditions under which Ameri...
This four article journal-based dissertation builds on Gene Sharp's framework of nonviolent direct a...
Recent years have seen an explosive increase in the number of English-language signs held by politic...
Recent years have seen an explosive increase in the number of English-language signs held by politic...
This dissertation explores the conditions under which protests successfully coerce political leaders...
This dissertation project focuses on dynamics of mobilization and repression in the Occupy movement....
When people come together in protest, and especially when this protest threatens public order or the...
dissertationThe practice of identifying and naming oppression within social movement rhetoric (SMR) ...
This present work analyzed the efficacy rate of protest outcomes when compared to the conceptualizat...
This project explores how protest messages affect audiences\u27 decision to join policy oriented pro...
This project explores how protest messages affect audiences\u27 decision to join policy oriented pro...
When protests are successful, they force us to realize another world is possible. To be successful t...
The analyses presented in this dissertation are guided by two broad questions. First, how do materia...
This dissertation analyzes when repression effectively deters dissent, and under what mechanisms do ...
This dissertation analyzes when repression effectively deters dissent, and under what mechanisms do ...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020This project explains the conditions under which Ameri...
This four article journal-based dissertation builds on Gene Sharp's framework of nonviolent direct a...
Recent years have seen an explosive increase in the number of English-language signs held by politic...
Recent years have seen an explosive increase in the number of English-language signs held by politic...
This dissertation explores the conditions under which protests successfully coerce political leaders...
This dissertation project focuses on dynamics of mobilization and repression in the Occupy movement....
When people come together in protest, and especially when this protest threatens public order or the...
dissertationThe practice of identifying and naming oppression within social movement rhetoric (SMR) ...
This present work analyzed the efficacy rate of protest outcomes when compared to the conceptualizat...
This project explores how protest messages affect audiences\u27 decision to join policy oriented pro...
This project explores how protest messages affect audiences\u27 decision to join policy oriented pro...
When protests are successful, they force us to realize another world is possible. To be successful t...
The analyses presented in this dissertation are guided by two broad questions. First, how do materia...
This dissertation analyzes when repression effectively deters dissent, and under what mechanisms do ...
This dissertation analyzes when repression effectively deters dissent, and under what mechanisms do ...