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SUBMITTER: Steinert-Threlkeld S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8101725 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Steinert-Threlkeld Shane S Steinert-Threlkeld Zachary Z
PloS one 20210506 5
Scholars have offered multiple theoretical resolutions to explain inconsistent findings about the relationship of state repression and protests, but this repression-dissent puzzle remains unsolved. We simulate the spread of protest on social networks to suggest that the repression-dissent puzzle arises from the nature of statistical sampling. Even though the paper's simulations construct repression so it can only decrease protest size, the strength of repression sometimes correlates with a decre ...[more]