Clair Apodaca

State Repression in Post-Disaster Societies

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Produktbeschreibung

Apodaca offers a unique contribution to our understanding of human rights violations. She effectively shows that there is a causal process between hazard events, protest activities, and government repression, a finding that is key to scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers working in this field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781138286092
• ISBN-10: 1138286095
• Artikelnr.: 47613618

Autorenporträt

Clair Apodaca is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Her research attempts to understand the many multifaceted and interrelated causes of human rights violations and how those violations threaten human wellbeing, the nation-state, and international peace.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Lists of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The Causal Chain
Chapter 2: Root Causes: Disasters Lead to Grievances
Chapter 3: Proximate Causes: Public Displays of Grievance and Civil Unrest
Chapter 4: Government Response to Civil Unrest
Chapter 5: Theory-Based Causal Model of Disaster-Related Repression
Chapter 6: Empirical Support for the Causal Chain: Results of the Analysis
of Disaster Related Repression
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Appendix
Index