About the Author:
Christian Davenport is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan as well as a Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies and Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Primary research interests include human rights violations, genocide/politicide, torture, political surveillance, civil war and social movements, measurement, racism and popular culture. He is the author of five books; three solo-authored: How Social Movements Die: Repression and Demobilization of the Republic of New Africa (2014, Cambridge University Press), Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party (2010, Cambridge University Press) - winner of Best Book in Racial Politics and Social Movements by the American Political Science Association, and State Repression and the Promise of Democratic Peace (2007, Cambridge University Press). Prof. Davenport is the author of numerous articles appearing in the American Political Science Review, the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Comparative Political Studies, and the Monthly Review (among others). He is the recipient of numerous grants (e.g., 8 from the National Science Foundation) and awards (e.g., the Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Award and a Residential Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences - Stanford University). Others books are underway: Stopping State Repression (with Ben Appel); In Search of a Number: Rethinking Rwanda, 1994 (with Allan Stam) and If You Kill a Revolutionary, Do You Kill the Revolution (with Chris Sullivan). He is also engaged in various data collection efforts, developing crowd-sourcing data collection programs and co-organizing workshops/conferences/webportals facilitating the development of conflict/peace studies. For more information, please refer to the following webpage: christiandavenport.com.
Review:
All students of repression and dissent owe a debt to Christian Davenport and his collaborators, not only for assembling important evidence about how repression and dissent work in today's world, but also for looking hard at the way one incites the other--as well as thinking through conditions and interventions that might reverse vicious cycles of mutual destruction. (Tilly, Charles)
A treasure-trove of articles.... Most repression research of the future will undoubtedly cite Paths to State Repression. (American Political Science Review)
It is a treasure-trove of useful articles with references. This book will further enhance Davenport's reputation as a leading scholar in the field of political repression. (American Political Science Review)
The contributors to this timely volume tell us a lot about how democracy and human rights, on the one hand, and state repression and political coercion, on the other, influence social movements and political conflict. These original essays will be widely read and appreciated. (Lichbach, Mark I.)
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