Nonviolent Repression in Electoral Autocracies
According to the Varieties of Democracy project, in 2021, 68% of the world's population lived in nondemocracies. The dominant form of nondemocracy are electoral autocracies, regimes that permit opposition parties and uncompetitive elections. To manage dissent, governments in these regimes increasingly rely on strategies of nonviolent repression.
About the project
Our project offers the first systematic study of how strategies of nonviolent repression influence protest coordination between different types of opposition parties and voters in electoral autocracies. We focus on one strategy of nonviolent repression in particular, the use of protest permit authorizations.
News & Updates
New research forthcoming in the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Politics
In the article, we examine authorities’ use of the law to diminish their opponents’ ability and willingness to challenge the state, a process known as ‘legal repression’.
Authorization of Russian protests in the early 2010s
By Lia Sokol The early 2010s brought the biggest wave of protests to Russia since the 1990s. Perhaps the most well-known protests occurred in 2011-12, spurred by
The project welcomes two new members
We are delighted to welcome two new members of our research team this term, Alex Tambiev and Lia Sokol. Alex Tambiev, an undergraduate student in Politics and
DATA ON PROTEST
We are currently collecting and analyzing a set of data related to protests in Russia, and will make them available through Dataverse in 2022.
SURVEY DATA
We are currently collecting and analyzing a set of survey data related to protests in Russia, and will make them available through Dataverse in 2022.