Democracy, threats and political repression in developing countries: Are democracies internally less violent?

By P. Regan, Errol A. Henderson. 2002

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• A dictator’s toolkit (2014, background): “Fein (1995) and Regan & Henderson (2002), for example, argue that there is ‘more murder in the middle’, suggesting that regimes combining elements of autocracy and democracy are the most coercive.”
• The Use of Repression as a Response to Domestic Dissent (2010, background): “While some studies limit their sample to less-developed countries (e.g. Moore, 2000; Regan and Henderson, 2002), others do not allow for a possible non-linear relationship between regime type and repression (e.”