ABSTRACT
This book analyses the dynamics between protest and repression in subSaharan Africa and Latin America since the end of the 1970s. The main questions addressed are: How do governments respond to popular protest? Does government repression increase the risk of protest and rebellion? How does the interaction between the government and the opposition differ between democracies, semi-democracies and autocracies? Are there regionalspecific characteristics of the interactions between protest, repression and political regimes? I investigated these questions at three different levels of analysis, employing different quantitative analyses and qualitative case studies.
