Published Books
How Social Movements Die: Repression and Demobilization of the Republic of New Africa
INtro: For those that know me, they know that I refer to this book by the title "To Kill a Movement." This is the title that I used for years as I was thinking about and then working on the project. The publisher did not like it though, so there you go.
Overview: Conventionally researchers, policymakers, activists and general observers have suggested that social movements are killed either from the "outside" (e.g., from repression) or the "inside" (e.g., from activist burnout or fractionalization). This book explores how these two factors interact, noting that governments and challengers co-evolve with the one responding (or not) to the actions taken by the other. From my argument, challengers that lag in their response, respond in an inappropriate manner or develop bad habits which weaken the organization die. Those who stay up on their responsivity, respond in an appropriate manner to the threats they are confronted with and develop good habits survive. Governments have a certain advantage in this dynamic process (an ace in the hole, so to speak): not all that are in social movements are actually working with/for social movements themselves. Inside information (informants) and subversion (agents provocateur) facilitates effective government repressive action and organizational deterioration. To investigate this topic I use a very disaggregated and detailed analysis of a black nationalist organization (The Republic of New Africa) as well as diverse political authorities that sought to disrupt and destroy the organization (the FBI, Michigan State Police and the Detroit Police Department). The time period of interest is 1968 (the founding of the organization) to 1973 (when the original cohort is no longer engaged).
Contents
Introduction
Part I – Theory
1. Killing Social Movements from the Outside or the Inside
2. Killing Social Movements from the Outside and the Inside
Part II – Case
3. Repression and Red Squads
4. Record Keeping and Data Collection
Part III – Origins
5. We Shall Overcome? From GOAL to the Freedom Now Party
6. We Shall Overthrow! From the Malcolm X Society to the Republic of New Africa
Part IV – Examination
7. Birth of a Black Nation
8. To Ocean Hill-Brownsville and B(l)ack
9. New Bethel and the End of the Beginning
10. When Separatists Separate
11. Mississippi: The Last Stand(off)
Part V – Conclusion
12. Understanding the Death of Social Movement Organizations
Review Excerpts & Full Reviews
Review in Contemporary Sociology (2016) - "Christian Davenport’s How Social Movements Die offers an excellent analysis of movement demobilization"... "This study contributes to our understanding of collective action, not only by providing new insights and findings on movement demobi- lization, but also by opening up a novel area of research necessary to fully understand the dynamics of social movements."
Review in American Journal of Sociology (2016) - "There is a great deal to admire about this book—from its astonishingly rich data and thorough analysis to its clear theorizing about an important and nettlesome issue in the study of repression (What are the consequences of repression?) to its call for research on demobilization".... "a must read"
Review in Social Forces (2015) - "the book has many merits"... "Impressive"
Review in Mobilization (2014) - "theoretically-informative and conceptually-rich"... "The book comes highly recommended"
Book Blurbs
"Marshalling insightful analysis, brilliant archival research, and extensive knowledge, Davenport explains the emergence, growth, and demise of social movements. This book is a real gem."
-- Scott Gates, Peace Research Institute Oslo and Norwegian University of Science and Technology
"Christian Davenport presents us with new theoretical insights into the external forces and internal dynamics that can eventually lead to the demise of a social movement organization that at its inception was at the forefront of a broader movement. His analysis of archival information on both overt and covert forms of state repression as well as his scrupulous analysis of RNA internal documents present us with innovative methods and novel lessons for the study of how social movement organizations emerge and eventually die."
-- T. David Mason, University of North Texas
"Christian Davenport brings his expertise on political repression to bear on a question that has, oddly, been largely neglected by scholars: how and why do social movements die? Drawing on unusually rich data that take us inside the thought processes of movement actors as well as their opponents, Davenport offers deep insight into both the rise and demise of social movement organizations."
-- Rory McVeigh, University of Notre Dame
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics (2015)
INtro: For those that know me, they know that I refer to this book by the title "To Kill a Movement." This is the title that I used for years as I was thinking about and then working on the project. The publisher did not like it though, so there you go.
Overview: Conventionally researchers, policymakers, activists and general observers have suggested that social movements are killed either from the "outside" (e.g., from repression) or the "inside" (e.g., from activist burnout or fractionalization). This book explores how these two factors interact, noting that governments and challengers co-evolve with the one responding (or not) to the actions taken by the other. From my argument, challengers that lag in their response, respond in an inappropriate manner or develop bad habits which weaken the organization die. Those who stay up on their responsivity, respond in an appropriate manner to the threats they are confronted with and develop good habits survive. Governments have a certain advantage in this dynamic process (an ace in the hole, so to speak): not all that are in social movements are actually working with/for social movements themselves. Inside information (informants) and subversion (agents provocateur) facilitates effective government repressive action and organizational deterioration. To investigate this topic I use a very disaggregated and detailed analysis of a black nationalist organization (The Republic of New Africa) as well as diverse political authorities that sought to disrupt and destroy the organization (the FBI, Michigan State Police and the Detroit Police Department). The time period of interest is 1968 (the founding of the organization) to 1973 (when the original cohort is no longer engaged).
Contents
Introduction
Part I – Theory
1. Killing Social Movements from the Outside or the Inside
2. Killing Social Movements from the Outside and the Inside
Part II – Case
3. Repression and Red Squads
4. Record Keeping and Data Collection
Part III – Origins
5. We Shall Overcome? From GOAL to the Freedom Now Party
6. We Shall Overthrow! From the Malcolm X Society to the Republic of New Africa
Part IV – Examination
7. Birth of a Black Nation
8. To Ocean Hill-Brownsville and B(l)ack
9. New Bethel and the End of the Beginning
10. When Separatists Separate
11. Mississippi: The Last Stand(off)
Part V – Conclusion
12. Understanding the Death of Social Movement Organizations
Review Excerpts & Full Reviews
Review in Contemporary Sociology (2016) - "Christian Davenport’s How Social Movements Die offers an excellent analysis of movement demobilization"... "This study contributes to our understanding of collective action, not only by providing new insights and findings on movement demobi- lization, but also by opening up a novel area of research necessary to fully understand the dynamics of social movements."
Review in American Journal of Sociology (2016) - "There is a great deal to admire about this book—from its astonishingly rich data and thorough analysis to its clear theorizing about an important and nettlesome issue in the study of repression (What are the consequences of repression?) to its call for research on demobilization".... "a must read"
Review in Social Forces (2015) - "the book has many merits"... "Impressive"
Review in Mobilization (2014) - "theoretically-informative and conceptually-rich"... "The book comes highly recommended"
Book Blurbs
"Marshalling insightful analysis, brilliant archival research, and extensive knowledge, Davenport explains the emergence, growth, and demise of social movements. This book is a real gem."
-- Scott Gates, Peace Research Institute Oslo and Norwegian University of Science and Technology
"Christian Davenport presents us with new theoretical insights into the external forces and internal dynamics that can eventually lead to the demise of a social movement organization that at its inception was at the forefront of a broader movement. His analysis of archival information on both overt and covert forms of state repression as well as his scrupulous analysis of RNA internal documents present us with innovative methods and novel lessons for the study of how social movement organizations emerge and eventually die."
-- T. David Mason, University of North Texas
"Christian Davenport brings his expertise on political repression to bear on a question that has, oddly, been largely neglected by scholars: how and why do social movements die? Drawing on unusually rich data that take us inside the thought processes of movement actors as well as their opponents, Davenport offers deep insight into both the rise and demise of social movement organizations."
-- Rory McVeigh, University of Notre Dame
Book Signing
Alternative Titles and Covers
Initially, I was not sure what the title was going to be or the cover art as I went back and forth with the publisher. Below is the image that I came up with. I liked the idea of the title and the image (especially the little gun pointed at the afro comb/pick) but it immediately prompted one to think that the book was exclusively about African Americans which it was not. This is where my case comes from but this does not constitute the full range of cases that I believe the work was applicable to. This tension is a broader one about case selection and the ability of the reading audience to see African American anything as an example that can be viewed as comparable to anyone else. Invariably, I moved away from the title. I will write more about this process later.
As an alternative cover image, I wanted to find something that was a bit more abstracted but that communicated something relevant to social movement organizations. I had three artist friends take a shot.
Below are three photographs from my friend Scott Carter. I like the symbolic nature of the upside down picket sign akin to the upside down cross transforming the meaning of the rightside up object.
Another friend Hilary Nichols had a very different take on the same theme.
The last possibility is something created by my (older) friend John Sparagana. I love the blurring effect as one moves further from the center. The idea would be to have this continue to blur until it disappears.
Cambridge liked Carter's take.
Below are three photographs from my friend Scott Carter. I like the symbolic nature of the upside down picket sign akin to the upside down cross transforming the meaning of the rightside up object.
Another friend Hilary Nichols had a very different take on the same theme.
The last possibility is something created by my (older) friend John Sparagana. I love the blurring effect as one moves further from the center. The idea would be to have this continue to blur until it disappears.
Cambridge liked Carter's take.
(Scott) Carter's Images
Hilary Nichol's Images
John Sparagana's Image
These were the alternative covers.
Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party
Click here for news article on award
INtro: This book is colloquially known as The Rashomon Effect (to those who heard me talk about the work). This was inspired by the Akira Kurosowa film Rashomon and James Scott's use of the phrase in his book Weapons of the Weak.
Overview: Within this book, I suggest that incessant attention to "bias" (i.e., what is missed from some account) has compelled researchers to ignore "perspective" (i.e., why specific actors highlight the information that they do). I argue that the geographic locale and political orientation of the newspaper influences how specific details are reported, including who starts and ends the conflict, who the challengers target (government or non-government actors), and which part of the government responds (the police or court). To investigate this argument the book examines information reported within the media regarding the interaction between the Black Panther Party and government agents in the Bay Area of California (1967–1973). Specifically, I find that proximate and government-oriented sources provide one assessment of events, whereas proximate and dissident-oriented sources have another; both converge on specific aspects of the conflict. The methodological implications of the study are clear. My findings show that in order to understand contentious events, it is crucial to understand who collects or distributes the information in order to comprehend who reportedly does what to whom as well as why. The differences in accounts are not noise, they are perhaps the most important sound/signal sent by the actors to their respective sides.
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Conceptualization
1. Objectivity and subjectivity in event catalogs
2. The Rashomon effect, observation and data generation
3. Understanding state repressive behavior
Part II. Cases
4. The Black Panther Party vs. the United States, 1967-73: background
5. An event catalog of dissent and repression: the BPP in the Bay Area
6. A mosaic of coercion: five cases of anti-Panther repressive behavior
Part III. Conclusion
7. Conclusion: conflict, events and catalogs
Appendix 1: The Black Panther-U.S. Government event catalogs.
Artwork
The cover art of the three fists was developed by a good friend of mine, Christina Rannacher. For some reason, however, she was not credited.
Review Excerpts & Full Reviews
- Review in Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (2011) - "Meticulous" and "Provocative"
- Review in International Journal of Press Politics (2011) - "a distinct contribution, first for its comparative approach—comparing realities across sources brings home the constructed nature even of “factual” chronologies of events—and also for its concrete and careful analysis, which successfully excavates the construction of a critical historical moment"
- Review in Mobilization (2011) - "Davenport's suggestions for the kinds of questions we should ask in the future, and the methodological strategies to answer them, are as important to consider as they will be challenging to execute. For this reason, the book should be required reading...
- Review in New Political Science (2010) - "Christian Davenport has written an intellectually ambitious book that should be or interest to students of social movements, state repression, and the news media."
Book Blurbs
This meticulously researched, well-written and broadly integrative book is simultaneously about a chief methodology used by scholars of contentious politics, and state repression of the Black Panther Party in the Bay Area during the late 1960’s. On the methodological level, the book illustrates the pitfalls of relying on single news source accounts of conflict and repression and it clearly delineates the sources of bias related to such news accounts. As such, the book stands out as a new and exciting addition to the growing literature on media bias and will become a classic text on this subject. On a substantive level, Davenport describes important events and details related to the state repression of a hitherto understudied social movement. Indeed, this work contributes to a much deeper and nuanced understanding of this movement during this period of time. Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression should be read and digested by political scientists, sociologists, historians, communications scholars and laypeople alike.”
-- Sarah Soule, Stanford University
“Scholars with an interest in social movements, repression, and/or the Black Panthers have been eagerly awaiting this book for the better part of a decade. It was worth the wait. The methodological implications of the work—as encoded in Davenport’s already well known Rashomon Effect—are reason enough to already regard the book as a classic. In addition, however, the work also represents a thoughtful, systematic study of the Black Panthers. Anyone who knows
this troubled corner of the literature is sure to appreciate what a rare and welcome achievement this is.”
-- Doug McAdam, Stanford University
“This is an important book with an important argument. It shows that different news sources not only covered different events relevant to the Black Panther Party, but constructed different narratives about cause-effect relations between movement actions and state repression. The sequences of mainstream news stories showed state repression to be a response to a few high-profile Black Panther actions and showed state repression effectively crushing the Black
Panther Party. The sequences of news stories in the movement news sources showed state repression to be a response to a much wider and more diffuse array Black Panther protest actions and showed Black Panther dissent continuing in the face of ongoing repression. Which theories of state repression got confirmed or rejected depended on which news sources you used. Christian Davenport provides the necessary context for this crucial analysis with informative and well-written summaries of research and theory on news coverage, state repression, and the history of the Black Panther Party and race relations in the Bay Area. The result is a book of crucial importance for scholars of social movements, state repression, mass media, and the history of the Black movement in the US.”
-- Pamela Oliver, University of Wisconsin
“This book explores the research implications of what Davenport terms ‘the rashomon effect.’ Davenport’s careful analysis of multiple (and sometimes contradictory) newspaper accounts of contentious interactions between the Black Panther Party and authorities in California’s Bay Area yields a number of new and fascinating findings on the dynamics of protest, violence, and repression. In sum, this book makes a compelling argument for using varied sources of data
on events as a method for understanding the process of collective action as experienced by different audiences.”
-- Susan Olzak, Stanford University
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics (2010).
Click here for news article on award
INtro: This book is colloquially known as The Rashomon Effect (to those who heard me talk about the work). This was inspired by the Akira Kurosowa film Rashomon and James Scott's use of the phrase in his book Weapons of the Weak.
Overview: Within this book, I suggest that incessant attention to "bias" (i.e., what is missed from some account) has compelled researchers to ignore "perspective" (i.e., why specific actors highlight the information that they do). I argue that the geographic locale and political orientation of the newspaper influences how specific details are reported, including who starts and ends the conflict, who the challengers target (government or non-government actors), and which part of the government responds (the police or court). To investigate this argument the book examines information reported within the media regarding the interaction between the Black Panther Party and government agents in the Bay Area of California (1967–1973). Specifically, I find that proximate and government-oriented sources provide one assessment of events, whereas proximate and dissident-oriented sources have another; both converge on specific aspects of the conflict. The methodological implications of the study are clear. My findings show that in order to understand contentious events, it is crucial to understand who collects or distributes the information in order to comprehend who reportedly does what to whom as well as why. The differences in accounts are not noise, they are perhaps the most important sound/signal sent by the actors to their respective sides.
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Conceptualization
1. Objectivity and subjectivity in event catalogs
2. The Rashomon effect, observation and data generation
3. Understanding state repressive behavior
Part II. Cases
4. The Black Panther Party vs. the United States, 1967-73: background
5. An event catalog of dissent and repression: the BPP in the Bay Area
6. A mosaic of coercion: five cases of anti-Panther repressive behavior
Part III. Conclusion
7. Conclusion: conflict, events and catalogs
Appendix 1: The Black Panther-U.S. Government event catalogs.
Artwork
The cover art of the three fists was developed by a good friend of mine, Christina Rannacher. For some reason, however, she was not credited.
Review Excerpts & Full Reviews
- Review in Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (2011) - "Meticulous" and "Provocative"
- Review in International Journal of Press Politics (2011) - "a distinct contribution, first for its comparative approach—comparing realities across sources brings home the constructed nature even of “factual” chronologies of events—and also for its concrete and careful analysis, which successfully excavates the construction of a critical historical moment"
- Review in Mobilization (2011) - "Davenport's suggestions for the kinds of questions we should ask in the future, and the methodological strategies to answer them, are as important to consider as they will be challenging to execute. For this reason, the book should be required reading...
- Review in New Political Science (2010) - "Christian Davenport has written an intellectually ambitious book that should be or interest to students of social movements, state repression, and the news media."
Book Blurbs
This meticulously researched, well-written and broadly integrative book is simultaneously about a chief methodology used by scholars of contentious politics, and state repression of the Black Panther Party in the Bay Area during the late 1960’s. On the methodological level, the book illustrates the pitfalls of relying on single news source accounts of conflict and repression and it clearly delineates the sources of bias related to such news accounts. As such, the book stands out as a new and exciting addition to the growing literature on media bias and will become a classic text on this subject. On a substantive level, Davenport describes important events and details related to the state repression of a hitherto understudied social movement. Indeed, this work contributes to a much deeper and nuanced understanding of this movement during this period of time. Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression should be read and digested by political scientists, sociologists, historians, communications scholars and laypeople alike.”
-- Sarah Soule, Stanford University
“Scholars with an interest in social movements, repression, and/or the Black Panthers have been eagerly awaiting this book for the better part of a decade. It was worth the wait. The methodological implications of the work—as encoded in Davenport’s already well known Rashomon Effect—are reason enough to already regard the book as a classic. In addition, however, the work also represents a thoughtful, systematic study of the Black Panthers. Anyone who knows
this troubled corner of the literature is sure to appreciate what a rare and welcome achievement this is.”
-- Doug McAdam, Stanford University
“This is an important book with an important argument. It shows that different news sources not only covered different events relevant to the Black Panther Party, but constructed different narratives about cause-effect relations between movement actions and state repression. The sequences of mainstream news stories showed state repression to be a response to a few high-profile Black Panther actions and showed state repression effectively crushing the Black
Panther Party. The sequences of news stories in the movement news sources showed state repression to be a response to a much wider and more diffuse array Black Panther protest actions and showed Black Panther dissent continuing in the face of ongoing repression. Which theories of state repression got confirmed or rejected depended on which news sources you used. Christian Davenport provides the necessary context for this crucial analysis with informative and well-written summaries of research and theory on news coverage, state repression, and the history of the Black Panther Party and race relations in the Bay Area. The result is a book of crucial importance for scholars of social movements, state repression, mass media, and the history of the Black movement in the US.”
-- Pamela Oliver, University of Wisconsin
“This book explores the research implications of what Davenport terms ‘the rashomon effect.’ Davenport’s careful analysis of multiple (and sometimes contradictory) newspaper accounts of contentious interactions between the Black Panther Party and authorities in California’s Bay Area yields a number of new and fascinating findings on the dynamics of protest, violence, and repression. In sum, this book makes a compelling argument for using varied sources of data
on events as a method for understanding the process of collective action as experienced by different audiences.”
-- Susan Olzak, Stanford University
State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace
INtro: This was actually the second book that I finished but the first one that was published (longish story). The work emerged from a sustained interest in what reduces state repression and what role (if any) political institutions played in the process.
Overview: Does democracy decrease state repression in line with the expectations of governments, international organizations, NGOs, social movements, academics and ordinary citizens around the world? Most believe that a "domestic democratic peace" exists, rivalling that found in the realm of interstate conflict. Investigating 137 countries from 1976 to 1996, this book seeks to shed light on this question. Specifically, three results emerge. First, while different aspects of democracy decrease repressive behaviour, not all do so to the same degree. Human rights violations are especially responsive to electoral participation and competition. Second, while different types of repression are reduced, not all are limited at comparable levels. Personal integrity violations are decreased more than civil liberties restrictions. Third, the domestic democratic peace is not bulletproof; the negative influence of democracy on repression can be overwhelmed by political conflict. This research alters our conception of repression, its analysis and its resolution. Here is an unpublished article that basically summarizes the argument (nuances and details missed but useful nevertheless).
Contents
Introduction
1. Repression and the search for peace
2. Disaggregation and contextualization
3. Data and methodology
4. Democratic pacification: the direct effects of voice and veto
5. Peace under fire: the interactive effect of democracy and conflict
6. (Re)considering domestic peace
Appendices
Artwork
I initially commissioned a painting from my dear friend John Sparagana but the publisher did not like it, arguing that it was too unclear as to what the image was trying to convey. What was interesting though was that if I did not come up with an image, they were going to use circles, squares and triangles. If that was an option, then why not use the commissioned art work? I yielded. After much searching, I later found the image that we ended up going with on Creative Commons.
Review Excerpts
Review in Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict (2009) - "a well-crafted and theoretically
insightful book that should appeal to qualitative and quantitative scholars alike"
Review in Journal of Conflict Studies (2009) - “Davenport’s book represents a leap forward in
our understanding of how democracy relates to state repression”
Review in Political Science Quarterly (2008) - “Consistently bold,” “Of Immense value to the
field of contentious politics”
Review in the American Journal of Sociology (2008) - “A benchmark book on the relationship
of democracy to state violence”
Review in Political Studies Review (2008) - “A ground-breaking contribution”
Review in Journal of Politics (2008) - “Valuable and nuanced”
Review in Mobilization (2008) - “A strong book”
Book Blurbs
"State Repression and the Democratic Peace is that rare book that compels the reader to adopt a significantly transformed way to think about democracy's warts as well as its many virtues. Christian Davenport has done a masterful job of exploring and explaining the conditions under which democratic governments resort to repressive and
coercive policies. (The) book is a tour de force, a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the underside of democracy"
— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, New York University
"This is a carefully nuanced comparative examination of how democratic institutions do and don't effectively constrain state repression under conditions of domestic and international threat. It is relevant to both new and long-established democracies"
— Bruce Russett, Yale University
"Drawing on, synthesizing and extending insights from comparative politics and international relations, political institutions, and conflict studies, Davenport provides one of the most important studies of state repression yet written. A must-read for those interested in political repression, state-sponsored violence, and the future of liberalism"
— Allan Stam, University of Michigan
"Davenport's State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace is a masterful, systematic, and sobering analysis of how contemporary states - often unsuccessfully - must tread a thin line between protecting and repressing political freedoms"
— Michael Ward, University of Washington
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies on Comparative Politics (2007)
INtro: This was actually the second book that I finished but the first one that was published (longish story). The work emerged from a sustained interest in what reduces state repression and what role (if any) political institutions played in the process.
Overview: Does democracy decrease state repression in line with the expectations of governments, international organizations, NGOs, social movements, academics and ordinary citizens around the world? Most believe that a "domestic democratic peace" exists, rivalling that found in the realm of interstate conflict. Investigating 137 countries from 1976 to 1996, this book seeks to shed light on this question. Specifically, three results emerge. First, while different aspects of democracy decrease repressive behaviour, not all do so to the same degree. Human rights violations are especially responsive to electoral participation and competition. Second, while different types of repression are reduced, not all are limited at comparable levels. Personal integrity violations are decreased more than civil liberties restrictions. Third, the domestic democratic peace is not bulletproof; the negative influence of democracy on repression can be overwhelmed by political conflict. This research alters our conception of repression, its analysis and its resolution. Here is an unpublished article that basically summarizes the argument (nuances and details missed but useful nevertheless).
Contents
Introduction
1. Repression and the search for peace
2. Disaggregation and contextualization
3. Data and methodology
4. Democratic pacification: the direct effects of voice and veto
5. Peace under fire: the interactive effect of democracy and conflict
6. (Re)considering domestic peace
Appendices
Artwork
I initially commissioned a painting from my dear friend John Sparagana but the publisher did not like it, arguing that it was too unclear as to what the image was trying to convey. What was interesting though was that if I did not come up with an image, they were going to use circles, squares and triangles. If that was an option, then why not use the commissioned art work? I yielded. After much searching, I later found the image that we ended up going with on Creative Commons.
Review Excerpts
Review in Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict (2009) - "a well-crafted and theoretically
insightful book that should appeal to qualitative and quantitative scholars alike"
Review in Journal of Conflict Studies (2009) - “Davenport’s book represents a leap forward in
our understanding of how democracy relates to state repression”
Review in Political Science Quarterly (2008) - “Consistently bold,” “Of Immense value to the
field of contentious politics”
Review in the American Journal of Sociology (2008) - “A benchmark book on the relationship
of democracy to state violence”
Review in Political Studies Review (2008) - “A ground-breaking contribution”
Review in Journal of Politics (2008) - “Valuable and nuanced”
Review in Mobilization (2008) - “A strong book”
Book Blurbs
"State Repression and the Democratic Peace is that rare book that compels the reader to adopt a significantly transformed way to think about democracy's warts as well as its many virtues. Christian Davenport has done a masterful job of exploring and explaining the conditions under which democratic governments resort to repressive and
coercive policies. (The) book is a tour de force, a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the underside of democracy"
— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, New York University
"This is a carefully nuanced comparative examination of how democratic institutions do and don't effectively constrain state repression under conditions of domestic and international threat. It is relevant to both new and long-established democracies"
— Bruce Russett, Yale University
"Drawing on, synthesizing and extending insights from comparative politics and international relations, political institutions, and conflict studies, Davenport provides one of the most important studies of state repression yet written. A must-read for those interested in political repression, state-sponsored violence, and the future of liberalism"
— Allan Stam, University of Michigan
"Davenport's State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace is a masterful, systematic, and sobering analysis of how contemporary states - often unsuccessfully - must tread a thin line between protecting and repressing political freedoms"
— Michael Ward, University of Washington
Repression and Mobilization (edited with Carol Mueller and Hank Johnston)
INtro: This edited volume emerged from a conference that was held at the University of Maryland (where I was a Professor at the time). This brought together a who's who of scholars that studied the dynamic interaction of repression and mobilization.
Overview: Recent events—from the collapse of Leninist regimes in Eastern Europe to the democratization of South Asian and South American states--have profoundly changed our ways of understanding and studying contentious politics, particularly the relationship between state repression and political mobilization.
With case studies that range from Germany to the Philippines, the United States to Japan, Guatemala to China, the authors take up topics as varied as the dynamic interactions between protestors and policing agents; distinctions between “hard” and “soft” repression; the impact of media on our understanding of political contention; the timing and shape of protest and resistance cycles; and how measurements of social and geographic control influence states’ response to insurgencies. Together these essays synthesize what we know about repression and mobilization and provide thoughtful insight for the future.
Contents
Introduction. Repression and Mobilization: Insights from Political Science and Sociology (Christian Davenport)
Part I. Under the Microscope: Toward a Better Understanding of Causal Dynamics
1. Protest Mobilization, Protest Repression, and Their Interaction (Clark McPhail and John D. McCarthy)
2. Precarious Regimes and Matchup Problems in the Explanation of Repressive Policy (Vince Boudreau)
3. The Dictator's Dilemma (Ronald A. Francisco)
Part II. Moving Beyond, Moving Into: Developing New Insights
4. When Activists Ask for Trouble: State—Dissident Interactions and the New Left Cycle of Resistance in the United States and Japan (Gilda Zwerman and Patricia Steinhoff)
5. Talking the Walk: Speech Acts and Resistance in Authoritarian Regimes (Hank Johnston)
6. Soft Repression: Ridicule, Stigma, and Silencing in Gender-Based Movements (Myra Marx Ferree)
Part III. Media, Measurement, and Contention
7. Repression and the Public Sphere: Discursive Opportunities for Repression against the Extreme Right in Germany in the 1990s (Ruud Koopmans)
8. On the Quantification of Horror: Notes from the Field (Patrick Ball)
Part IV. Reflections and Future Directions
9. Repression, Mobilization, and Explanation (Charles Tilly)
10. How to Organize Your Mechanisms: Research Programs, Stylized Facts, and Historical Narratives (Mark Lichbach)
Contributors
Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group; Vince Boudreau, City College of New York; Christian Davenport, U of Michigan; Myra Marx Ferree, U of Wisconsin; Ronald Francisco, U of Kansas; Hank Johnston, San Diego State U; Ruud Koopmans, WZB; Mark Lichbach, U of Maryland; John D. McCarthy, Pennsylvania State U; Clark McPhail, U of Ilinois, Urbana-Champaign; Carol Mueller, Arizona State U West; Patricia Steinhoff, U of Hawaii; Charles Tilly, Columbia U (passed); Gilda Zwerman, SUNY, Old Westbury.
Artwork
I have absolutely no idea where this picture came from.
Reviews
Review in Extremism and Democracy (2007)
Review in Human Rights Quarterly (2007)
Review in Contemporary Sociology (2007)
Review in American Journal of Sociology (2006)
Review in Journal of Peace Research (2006)
Review in Political Studies Review (2006)
Review in Canadian Journal of Sociology (2005)
Resonance
Review Excerpts
“This book will be of great interest to scholars of the mobilization-repression nexus. It offers an excellent collection of the latest work in this field and highlights both the multitude of questions that still beg further inquiry as well as the varied conceptual and methodological approaches that help us to better understand the casual linkages and mechanisms that lead to conflict and human suffering”
— Extremism and Democracy Newsletter
“A timely and prophetic book.”
— Human Rights Quarterly
“Its contents represent the most significant advance in collective knowledge in some time.”
— Contemporary Sociology
“This volume gives us many mechanisms of protest/repression dynamics to consider and advances considerably our understanding of those dynamics.”
— Journal of Peace Research
"An innovative combination of subtly nuanced theoretical insights backed by solid empirical case studies.”
— Canadian Journal of Sociology Online
“Recommended.”
— Choice
“Repression and Mobilization’s chapters are framed by a thorough introduction from one of the field’s best new scholars from the last decade or so, coeditor Christian Davenport, and by concluding contributions from two of the most distinguished scholars of conflict studies, Mark Lichbach and Charles Tilly.”
— American Journal of Sociology
“Written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of social movements and social conflict. They suggest new ways of approaching the phenomena of repression and mobilization and call us to broaden the object and enrich the means of our analysis. A stimulating and outstanding contribution not only for postgraduate students and academics with a special interest in the relevant literature, but for those interested in the broader issue of the object of
social theory as well.”
— Political Studies Review
- University of Minnesota Press (2005).
INtro: This edited volume emerged from a conference that was held at the University of Maryland (where I was a Professor at the time). This brought together a who's who of scholars that studied the dynamic interaction of repression and mobilization.
Overview: Recent events—from the collapse of Leninist regimes in Eastern Europe to the democratization of South Asian and South American states--have profoundly changed our ways of understanding and studying contentious politics, particularly the relationship between state repression and political mobilization.
With case studies that range from Germany to the Philippines, the United States to Japan, Guatemala to China, the authors take up topics as varied as the dynamic interactions between protestors and policing agents; distinctions between “hard” and “soft” repression; the impact of media on our understanding of political contention; the timing and shape of protest and resistance cycles; and how measurements of social and geographic control influence states’ response to insurgencies. Together these essays synthesize what we know about repression and mobilization and provide thoughtful insight for the future.
Contents
Introduction. Repression and Mobilization: Insights from Political Science and Sociology (Christian Davenport)
Part I. Under the Microscope: Toward a Better Understanding of Causal Dynamics
1. Protest Mobilization, Protest Repression, and Their Interaction (Clark McPhail and John D. McCarthy)
2. Precarious Regimes and Matchup Problems in the Explanation of Repressive Policy (Vince Boudreau)
3. The Dictator's Dilemma (Ronald A. Francisco)
Part II. Moving Beyond, Moving Into: Developing New Insights
4. When Activists Ask for Trouble: State—Dissident Interactions and the New Left Cycle of Resistance in the United States and Japan (Gilda Zwerman and Patricia Steinhoff)
5. Talking the Walk: Speech Acts and Resistance in Authoritarian Regimes (Hank Johnston)
6. Soft Repression: Ridicule, Stigma, and Silencing in Gender-Based Movements (Myra Marx Ferree)
Part III. Media, Measurement, and Contention
7. Repression and the Public Sphere: Discursive Opportunities for Repression against the Extreme Right in Germany in the 1990s (Ruud Koopmans)
8. On the Quantification of Horror: Notes from the Field (Patrick Ball)
Part IV. Reflections and Future Directions
9. Repression, Mobilization, and Explanation (Charles Tilly)
10. How to Organize Your Mechanisms: Research Programs, Stylized Facts, and Historical Narratives (Mark Lichbach)
Contributors
Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group; Vince Boudreau, City College of New York; Christian Davenport, U of Michigan; Myra Marx Ferree, U of Wisconsin; Ronald Francisco, U of Kansas; Hank Johnston, San Diego State U; Ruud Koopmans, WZB; Mark Lichbach, U of Maryland; John D. McCarthy, Pennsylvania State U; Clark McPhail, U of Ilinois, Urbana-Champaign; Carol Mueller, Arizona State U West; Patricia Steinhoff, U of Hawaii; Charles Tilly, Columbia U (passed); Gilda Zwerman, SUNY, Old Westbury.
Artwork
I have absolutely no idea where this picture came from.
Reviews
Review in Extremism and Democracy (2007)
Review in Human Rights Quarterly (2007)
Review in Contemporary Sociology (2007)
Review in American Journal of Sociology (2006)
Review in Journal of Peace Research (2006)
Review in Political Studies Review (2006)
Review in Canadian Journal of Sociology (2005)
Resonance
Review Excerpts
“This book will be of great interest to scholars of the mobilization-repression nexus. It offers an excellent collection of the latest work in this field and highlights both the multitude of questions that still beg further inquiry as well as the varied conceptual and methodological approaches that help us to better understand the casual linkages and mechanisms that lead to conflict and human suffering”
— Extremism and Democracy Newsletter
“A timely and prophetic book.”
— Human Rights Quarterly
“Its contents represent the most significant advance in collective knowledge in some time.”
— Contemporary Sociology
“This volume gives us many mechanisms of protest/repression dynamics to consider and advances considerably our understanding of those dynamics.”
— Journal of Peace Research
"An innovative combination of subtly nuanced theoretical insights backed by solid empirical case studies.”
— Canadian Journal of Sociology Online
“Recommended.”
— Choice
“Repression and Mobilization’s chapters are framed by a thorough introduction from one of the field’s best new scholars from the last decade or so, coeditor Christian Davenport, and by concluding contributions from two of the most distinguished scholars of conflict studies, Mark Lichbach and Charles Tilly.”
— American Journal of Sociology
“Written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of social movements and social conflict. They suggest new ways of approaching the phenomena of repression and mobilization and call us to broaden the object and enrich the means of our analysis. A stimulating and outstanding contribution not only for postgraduate students and academics with a special interest in the relevant literature, but for those interested in the broader issue of the object of
social theory as well.”
— Political Studies Review
Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics (solo editor)
INtro: Back in 1999, I had a conference at the University of Colorado (where I was employed at the time). The basic idea was to continue the discussion initiated by George Lopez and Michael Stohl in their series of books on the topic, including The State as Terrorist: Dynamics of Governmental Violence and Repression (1984), Government Violence and Repression: An Agenda for Research(1986) and Dependence, Development and State Repression (1989). These books are largely neglected but they serve as the foundation for much of what appears afterward.
Overview: In the last ten years, there has been a resurgence of interest in repression and violence within states. Paths to State Repression improves our understanding of why states use political repression, highlighting its relationship to dissent and mass protest. The authors draw upon a wide variety of political-economic contexts, methodological approaches, and geographic locales, including Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Israel, Eastern Europe, and Africa. This book is invaluable to all who wish to better under why central authorities violate and restrict human rights and how states can break their cycles of conflict.
Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part I: Domestic Threats, Dissent, and State Repression
Chapter 3. Domestic Threats: The Abuse of Personal Integrity
Chapter 4. Political Repression: Threat Perception and Transnational Solidarity Groups
Chapter 5. Protest Targeting and Repression: Campaigns against Water Projects in Indonesia
Part II: Exploring Dynamic Interactions
Chapter 7. Coercion and Protest: An Empirical Test Revisited
Chapter 8. Why Are Collective Conflicts Stable?
Chapter 9. Mobilization, Opportunity Structure, and Polity Responsiveness: The Role of Repression in the Intifada
Part III: Bringing the State Back In (Again)
Chapter 11. Protest, Democratization, and Human Rights in Africa
Chapter 12. Exploring the Ameliorating Effects of Democracy on Political Repression: Cross-National Evidence
Contributors: George Aditjondro, Christian Davenport Ronald Francisco, Linda Camp Keith, John C. King, David Kowalewski, Drew Noble Lanier, Chris Lee, Kathleen A Mahoney-Norris, Sandra Maline, Susan McMillan, Will Moore, Steven Peterson, Steven Poe, Karen Rasler, James Scarritt and C. Neal Tate.
Artwork:
I have absolutely no idea where this picture came from. I was young.
Reviews:
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.
— Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University
A treasure-trove of articles.... Most repression research of the future will undoubtedly cite Paths to State 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.
— Mark I. Lichbach, University of California, Riverside
- Rowman and Littlefield (2000).
INtro: Back in 1999, I had a conference at the University of Colorado (where I was employed at the time). The basic idea was to continue the discussion initiated by George Lopez and Michael Stohl in their series of books on the topic, including The State as Terrorist: Dynamics of Governmental Violence and Repression (1984), Government Violence and Repression: An Agenda for Research(1986) and Dependence, Development and State Repression (1989). These books are largely neglected but they serve as the foundation for much of what appears afterward.
Overview: In the last ten years, there has been a resurgence of interest in repression and violence within states. Paths to State Repression improves our understanding of why states use political repression, highlighting its relationship to dissent and mass protest. The authors draw upon a wide variety of political-economic contexts, methodological approaches, and geographic locales, including Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Israel, Eastern Europe, and Africa. This book is invaluable to all who wish to better under why central authorities violate and restrict human rights and how states can break their cycles of conflict.
Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part I: Domestic Threats, Dissent, and State Repression
Chapter 3. Domestic Threats: The Abuse of Personal Integrity
Chapter 4. Political Repression: Threat Perception and Transnational Solidarity Groups
Chapter 5. Protest Targeting and Repression: Campaigns against Water Projects in Indonesia
Part II: Exploring Dynamic Interactions
Chapter 7. Coercion and Protest: An Empirical Test Revisited
Chapter 8. Why Are Collective Conflicts Stable?
Chapter 9. Mobilization, Opportunity Structure, and Polity Responsiveness: The Role of Repression in the Intifada
Part III: Bringing the State Back In (Again)
Chapter 11. Protest, Democratization, and Human Rights in Africa
Chapter 12. Exploring the Ameliorating Effects of Democracy on Political Repression: Cross-National Evidence
Contributors: George Aditjondro, Christian Davenport Ronald Francisco, Linda Camp Keith, John C. King, David Kowalewski, Drew Noble Lanier, Chris Lee, Kathleen A Mahoney-Norris, Sandra Maline, Susan McMillan, Will Moore, Steven Peterson, Steven Poe, Karen Rasler, James Scarritt and C. Neal Tate.
Artwork:
I have absolutely no idea where this picture came from. I was young.
Reviews:
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.
— Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University
A treasure-trove of articles.... Most repression research of the future will undoubtedly cite Paths to State 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.
— Mark I. Lichbach, University of California, Riverside
Published Peer-Refereed Articles
41. “Transitional Injustice: Subverting Justice in Transition and Post-Conflict Societies” (with Cyanne Loyle).
Published Non-Refereed Articles
9. “Introduction” (with Erika Forsberg and Johanna Birnir).
- Journal of Human Rights 15(1): 126-149. 2016.
- Conflict Management and Peace Science 31(1): 94-106. 2014.
- Social Science and Medicine February. 2014.
- Journal of Peace Research 50(3): 369-383. 2013.
- American Journal of Political Science 57(4): 926-940. 2013.
- Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence 24(4): 1-16. 2012.
- International Interactions – Special Issue on Event Data. 38(4):1-17. 2012.
- International Journal of Conflict and Violence 6(1):75-95. 2012.
- International Area Studies Review. 15(1): 3-20. 2012.
- American Sociological Review 76(1): 152-178. 2011.
- Yale Journal of International Affairs 5(1): 57-68. 2010.
- Swiss Political Science Review 15(2): 377-385. 2009.
- Mobilization 14(1): 1-22. 2009.
- International Studies Perspectives 9: 445-449. 2008.
- Annual Review of Political Science 10:1-23. 2007.
- Journal of Peace Research 44(4): 485-504. 2007.
- University of Minnesota Law Journal. 2007.
- Journal of Conflict Resolution 49(1): 120-40. 2005.
- International Studies Quarterly 48(3): 539-560. 2004.
- American Journal of Political Science 48(3): 538-554. 2004.
- International Interactions 29(1): 27-55. 2003.
- Journal of Conflict Resolution 46(3): 427-450. 2002.
- Comparative Political Studies 35(1): 40-45. 2002.
- Mobilization 6(2): 151-172. 2001.
- American Political Science Review 93(3): 649-664. 1999.
- Journal of Conflict Resolution 43(1): 92-116. 1999.
- New Political Science 21(2/June): 261-279. 1999.
- Other Voices 1(2): http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~ov/1.2/index.html. 1998.
- Social Science Quarterly 79(2): 321-340. 1998.
- Electoral Studies 16(4): 517-540. 1997.
- Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies 4(1): 20-28. 1997.
- Journal of Politics 59(2): 550-564. 1997.
- Journal of Politics 58(3): 627-654. 1996.
- Political Research Quarterly 49(2): 377-403. 1996.
- Journal of Contemporary Asia 25(3): 319-337. 1995.
- American Journal of Political Science 38(3): 683-713. 1995.
- Journal of Political and Military Sociology 23(Summer): 119-144. 1995.
- Crime, Law and Social Change 17: 107-121. 1992.
- Crime, Law and Social Change 16: 155-175. 1991.
- Monthly Review (September). 1990.
- Realidad Economic (January/February). 1990.
Published Non-Refereed Articles
9. “Introduction” (with Erika Forsberg and Johanna Birnir).
- Ethnic Politics and Conflict/Violence in Ethnopolitics 16:1: 1-4. 2017.
- International Interactions - Commentary on the Arab Spring. 2012. 38(5): 704-713..
- 2011. States, Power and Societies 16(3): 6-8.
- 2010. Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. http://hhi.harvard.edu/images/resources/reports/evidence-based%20peacekeeping_2.pdf.
- Miller-McCune Magazine. 2009.
- 2007. NAACP - Special Edition.
- 2007. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition.
- 2005. GIS Educator. (Spring): 6-7.
- 2000. PS – Political Science and Politics 33(4): 895-898.
Other Works
Special Issues
1. The Study of Ethnopolitical Violence: State of the Field and New Directions for Research with Erika Forsberg and Johanna Birnir (co-editors) as well as Monica Toft, John McCauley, Lars-Erik Cederman and Julian Wucherpfening, Anita Gohdes, Ted Gurr, Henry Hale, Erin Jenne, Will Moore, Idean Salehyan, Stephen Saideman, Sherrill Stroschein, David Lake, Patrick James and Cyrus Mohammadian, David Carment in Ethnopolitics. 2016.
1. The Study of Ethnopolitical Violence: State of the Field and New Directions for Research with Erika Forsberg and Johanna Birnir (co-editors) as well as Monica Toft, John McCauley, Lars-Erik Cederman and Julian Wucherpfening, Anita Gohdes, Ted Gurr, Henry Hale, Erin Jenne, Will Moore, Idean Salehyan, Stephen Saideman, Sherrill Stroschein, David Lake, Patrick James and Cyrus Mohammadian, David Carment in Ethnopolitics. 2016.
Book Chapters
11. "States, Superheroes and Storytellers: Human Rights through Comics and Graphic Novels" in The Sage Handbook of Human Rights. Sage Publications. 2014.
10. “Blowing Flames into the Souls of Black Folk: Ollie Harrington and his Bombs from Berlin to Harlem” in Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 2013.
Black Comics was the Winner of the Will Eisner Award for Best Academic/Educational work in 2014.
9. “Chronic and Coercion: Exploring how Legalizing Marijuana Might Get the U.S. Government off the Backs and Throats of Americans (or, not) in Somethings in the Air: Race, Crime and the Legalization of Marijuana. New York: Routledge. 2013.
8. “Data Limitations as Impediment to Genocide Intervention” (with Cyanne Loyle). In Sam Totten ed. Impediments to the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide (Transaction Press)
7. “Political Democracy and State Repression.” In Human Rights: Politics and Practice, Michael Goodhart, ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 2009. (Now in Second Edition)
6. “Scholarship Under the Gun, Lawsuit and Innuendo: Understanding and Navigating Academic Repression.” In Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex, Anthony Nocella and Steven Best, eds. Oakland: AK Press. 2009.
5. “Six Feet Over: Internal War, Battle Deaths and the Influence of the Living on the Dead” (with David Armstrong). In Insecurity in Intra-State Conflicts: Governments, Rebels, and Outsiders, Stephen M. Saideman and Marie-Joëlle Zahar, eds. London: Routledge. 2008.
4. “Introduction.” In Repression and Mobilization, Christian Davenport, Carol Mueller and Hank Johnston, eds. University of Minnesota Press. 2005.
3. “Tracking Down the Empirical Legacy of the Black Panther Party (or Notes on the Perils of Pursuing the Panthers)” (with Claudia Dahlerus). In Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party, Kathleen Cleaver and George Katsiaficas, eds. Boulder: Routledge. 2000.
2. “Rereading the Voice of the Vanguard Party: A Content and Rhetorical Analysis of the Black Panther Party Intercommunal Newsletter From 1969–1973.” In The Black Panther Party Reconsidered: Reflections and Scholarship, Charles Jones, ed. Baltimore: Black Classic Press. 1998.
1. “Domestic Effects of Third World Militarization.” In Comparative Study of Political Conflict: Political Conflict, Political Development and Public Policy, Eduard Ziegenhagen, ed. New York: Praeger. 1994.
Monographs, Reports, and Extension Publications
5. "Data from the Dark Side: Notes on Archiving Political Conflict and Violence" PS – Political Science and Politics 43(1): 37-41. 2009. From a Symposium on "Data Collection and Collaboration."
4. "What Really Happened in Rwanda?" (with Allan Stam). Miller-Mccune Magazine. 2009.
World News Journal reprint
History News Network reprint
Truthout reprint
Organizing for America reprint
Progressives, South Bend reprint
Lucianne.com reprint
ABC Nyheter
Origo
Emoiz Latest World and Tech News
Newswire - All Girl Army
Tanzania Science and Technology
Commentary on the article: Newstrust
3. Understanding Untouchability (with Martin Macwan, David Armstrong, Allan Stam, Monika Kalra Varma and Amanda Klassing). Ahmedabad, India: Navsarjan Trust. 2009.
2. “The Conflict-HIV/AIDs Nexus: An Empirical Assessment” (with Cyanne Loyle). The Aids, Security and Conflict Initiative - Clingendael and the Social Science Research Council. Report 21. 2009.
1. Project X: Monitoring the Pulse of Black Public Opinion (with Darren Davis). Houston: University of Houston Center for Public Policy. 1993.
Commentary
1. “The Next Generation: Making Sense of Contemporary Contentious Politics” (with Will Moore) States, Power and Societies 16(3): 6-8. 2011
Reviews
9. "Bringing Clandestine Groups into Contentious Politics" a book review of Clandestine Political Violence by Donnatella Della Porta (2014), in Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict 7(1): 109-113.
8. 50 Years, 100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives (2008) written by Johan Galtung, in Journal of Peace Research 48(5): 685-686. 2011.
7. Crimes of Dissent: Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice and the Politics of Conscience (2009) written by Jarrett Lovell, in Perspectives on Politics 9(3): 723-724. 2011.
6. “Hobbes ‘n the Hood: A Review of “Crips and Bloods – Made in America” a film review of Bloods and Crips: Made in America (2008) by Stacy Peralta in Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict Pathways toward terrorism and genocide 2(3): 207-210. 2009.
5. The Evolution of Inequality: War, State Survival, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective (2002) written by Manus Midlarsky, in the American Political Science Review 94(1): 223-224. 2000.
4. Ethnic Conflict in World Politics (1996) written by Ted Robert Gurr and Barbara Harff, in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 2(3): 475-477. 2000.
3. Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power (1997) by David Horowitz, in the American Political Science Review 91(4): 979-981. 2000.
2. Terror, Force, and States: The Path from Modernity (1996) by Rosemary O’Kane, in the American Political Science Review 91(4): 979-981. 1998.
1. Social Movements, Political Violence, and the State: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Germany (1996) by Donatella Della Porta, in the American Political Science Review 91(4): 979-981. 1998.
11. "States, Superheroes and Storytellers: Human Rights through Comics and Graphic Novels" in The Sage Handbook of Human Rights. Sage Publications. 2014.
10. “Blowing Flames into the Souls of Black Folk: Ollie Harrington and his Bombs from Berlin to Harlem” in Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 2013.
Black Comics was the Winner of the Will Eisner Award for Best Academic/Educational work in 2014.
9. “Chronic and Coercion: Exploring how Legalizing Marijuana Might Get the U.S. Government off the Backs and Throats of Americans (or, not) in Somethings in the Air: Race, Crime and the Legalization of Marijuana. New York: Routledge. 2013.
8. “Data Limitations as Impediment to Genocide Intervention” (with Cyanne Loyle). In Sam Totten ed. Impediments to the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide (Transaction Press)
7. “Political Democracy and State Repression.” In Human Rights: Politics and Practice, Michael Goodhart, ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 2009. (Now in Second Edition)
6. “Scholarship Under the Gun, Lawsuit and Innuendo: Understanding and Navigating Academic Repression.” In Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex, Anthony Nocella and Steven Best, eds. Oakland: AK Press. 2009.
5. “Six Feet Over: Internal War, Battle Deaths and the Influence of the Living on the Dead” (with David Armstrong). In Insecurity in Intra-State Conflicts: Governments, Rebels, and Outsiders, Stephen M. Saideman and Marie-Joëlle Zahar, eds. London: Routledge. 2008.
4. “Introduction.” In Repression and Mobilization, Christian Davenport, Carol Mueller and Hank Johnston, eds. University of Minnesota Press. 2005.
3. “Tracking Down the Empirical Legacy of the Black Panther Party (or Notes on the Perils of Pursuing the Panthers)” (with Claudia Dahlerus). In Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party, Kathleen Cleaver and George Katsiaficas, eds. Boulder: Routledge. 2000.
2. “Rereading the Voice of the Vanguard Party: A Content and Rhetorical Analysis of the Black Panther Party Intercommunal Newsletter From 1969–1973.” In The Black Panther Party Reconsidered: Reflections and Scholarship, Charles Jones, ed. Baltimore: Black Classic Press. 1998.
1. “Domestic Effects of Third World Militarization.” In Comparative Study of Political Conflict: Political Conflict, Political Development and Public Policy, Eduard Ziegenhagen, ed. New York: Praeger. 1994.
Monographs, Reports, and Extension Publications
5. "Data from the Dark Side: Notes on Archiving Political Conflict and Violence" PS – Political Science and Politics 43(1): 37-41. 2009. From a Symposium on "Data Collection and Collaboration."
4. "What Really Happened in Rwanda?" (with Allan Stam). Miller-Mccune Magazine. 2009.
World News Journal reprint
History News Network reprint
Truthout reprint
Organizing for America reprint
Progressives, South Bend reprint
Lucianne.com reprint
ABC Nyheter
Origo
Emoiz Latest World and Tech News
Newswire - All Girl Army
Tanzania Science and Technology
Commentary on the article: Newstrust
3. Understanding Untouchability (with Martin Macwan, David Armstrong, Allan Stam, Monika Kalra Varma and Amanda Klassing). Ahmedabad, India: Navsarjan Trust. 2009.
2. “The Conflict-HIV/AIDs Nexus: An Empirical Assessment” (with Cyanne Loyle). The Aids, Security and Conflict Initiative - Clingendael and the Social Science Research Council. Report 21. 2009.
1. Project X: Monitoring the Pulse of Black Public Opinion (with Darren Davis). Houston: University of Houston Center for Public Policy. 1993.
Commentary
1. “The Next Generation: Making Sense of Contemporary Contentious Politics” (with Will Moore) States, Power and Societies 16(3): 6-8. 2011
Reviews
9. "Bringing Clandestine Groups into Contentious Politics" a book review of Clandestine Political Violence by Donnatella Della Porta (2014), in Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict 7(1): 109-113.
8. 50 Years, 100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives (2008) written by Johan Galtung, in Journal of Peace Research 48(5): 685-686. 2011.
7. Crimes of Dissent: Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice and the Politics of Conscience (2009) written by Jarrett Lovell, in Perspectives on Politics 9(3): 723-724. 2011.
6. “Hobbes ‘n the Hood: A Review of “Crips and Bloods – Made in America” a film review of Bloods and Crips: Made in America (2008) by Stacy Peralta in Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict Pathways toward terrorism and genocide 2(3): 207-210. 2009.
5. The Evolution of Inequality: War, State Survival, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective (2002) written by Manus Midlarsky, in the American Political Science Review 94(1): 223-224. 2000.
4. Ethnic Conflict in World Politics (1996) written by Ted Robert Gurr and Barbara Harff, in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 2(3): 475-477. 2000.
3. Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power (1997) by David Horowitz, in the American Political Science Review 91(4): 979-981. 2000.
2. Terror, Force, and States: The Path from Modernity (1996) by Rosemary O’Kane, in the American Political Science Review 91(4): 979-981. 1998.
1. Social Movements, Political Violence, and the State: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Germany (1996) by Donatella Della Porta, in the American Political Science Review 91(4): 979-981. 1998.
Work Underway and/or Under Review
Academic Books
4. POP Struggle: Repression and Dissent in Film, Comics and Graphic Novels – Underway
3. Stopping State Repression: How Can We End Ongoing State-Sponsored Mass Killing? (with Benjamin Appel) – Underway
2. In Search of a Number: Rethinking Rwanda, 1994 (with Allan Stam) – Underway
1. Understanding Untouchability (with David Armstrong, Martin Macwan, Allan Stam) – Underway
Refereed Articles
13. "Intent and Intentionality" (with Allan Stam) - Underway
12. "The Rhetoric of State Repression" (with Anita Ravishankar) - Underway
11. "The Logics of State Repression" (with Christopher Sullivan) - Underway
10. "Scaling Perceptions of Challenger and Government Tactics" (with David Armstrong and Thomas Zeitzoff) - Underway
9. "Resistance to the Patriot Act" (with David Armstrong) - Underway
8. "Repression with Synonyms" - R&R
7. "Starting and Stopping State Repression" (with Benjamin Appel) - Underway
6. "Stopping State Repression: An Examination of Spells 1976-2006" (with Benjamin Appel) - R&R
5. "Tenure Through Tyranny? Dissent, Repression and Leadership Survival" (with Reed Wood) - Underway
4. "Protest, Policing and Perception: An Experiment" (with Rose McDermott and David Armstrong) - Underway
3. “An Evolutionary Theory of State Repression” (with Rose McDermott) – Underway
2. “Researching While Black: Why and How African Americans Are Needed for Social Science Field Research” – Underway
1. Some Left to Tell the Tale (with Cyanne Loyle) – Under review
Chapters
None at the moment
Need to revisit
From Mountains to Movements (with David Armstrong & Mark Lichbach)
Academic Books
4. POP Struggle: Repression and Dissent in Film, Comics and Graphic Novels – Underway
3. Stopping State Repression: How Can We End Ongoing State-Sponsored Mass Killing? (with Benjamin Appel) – Underway
2. In Search of a Number: Rethinking Rwanda, 1994 (with Allan Stam) – Underway
1. Understanding Untouchability (with David Armstrong, Martin Macwan, Allan Stam) – Underway
Refereed Articles
13. "Intent and Intentionality" (with Allan Stam) - Underway
12. "The Rhetoric of State Repression" (with Anita Ravishankar) - Underway
11. "The Logics of State Repression" (with Christopher Sullivan) - Underway
10. "Scaling Perceptions of Challenger and Government Tactics" (with David Armstrong and Thomas Zeitzoff) - Underway
9. "Resistance to the Patriot Act" (with David Armstrong) - Underway
8. "Repression with Synonyms" - R&R
7. "Starting and Stopping State Repression" (with Benjamin Appel) - Underway
6. "Stopping State Repression: An Examination of Spells 1976-2006" (with Benjamin Appel) - R&R
5. "Tenure Through Tyranny? Dissent, Repression and Leadership Survival" (with Reed Wood) - Underway
4. "Protest, Policing and Perception: An Experiment" (with Rose McDermott and David Armstrong) - Underway
3. “An Evolutionary Theory of State Repression” (with Rose McDermott) – Underway
2. “Researching While Black: Why and How African Americans Are Needed for Social Science Field Research” – Underway
1. Some Left to Tell the Tale (with Cyanne Loyle) – Under review
Chapters
None at the moment
Need to revisit
From Mountains to Movements (with David Armstrong & Mark Lichbach)
Novels
Be and the Movements in Stasis – a Book of Social Change (Or, Not). Savannah: Freeman House Publishing.
Traveling in Black and White: A Travelogue of Race, Redemption and Rwandan Political Violence. Manuscript
Be and the Movements in Stasis – a Book of Social Change (Or, Not). Savannah: Freeman House Publishing.
Traveling in Black and White: A Travelogue of Race, Redemption and Rwandan Political Violence. Manuscript
