ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates how the protest-repression nexus has played out in two countries: Chile and Nigeria. These micro-level investigations outline how the dynamics that were investigated using statistical approaches in the previous chapters developed under specific historical, cultural, economic and political conditions. The Chilean case study concentrates on the Pinochet regime from 1973-88 and the beginning of the subsequent democratic regime. The case study on Nigeria analyses the protest-repression nexus from the end of the Second Republic in 1983 to the return to civilian rule under Obasanjo in 1999. The two case studies were chosen from the sample of nine countries from Chapters 4 and 5 in order to represent the two regions, Latin America and Africa, and to provide variation in regime type to allow for the analysis of domestic conflict in different institutional settings.
