id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt s4655d89t0k Jessica A. Brandwein Threat, Risk, and Repression: Exploring State-Sponsored Political Violence from a Prospect Theory Approach 1904 .txt text/plain 336 13 39 A statistical analysis of government responses to dissent among African countries supports this argument, showing that governments in the domain of loss repress low levels of dissent at higher rates than governments in the domain of gain. Chapter 4 looks at how international actors influence the use of state repression, proposing that the effect of interventions on the use of state-sponsored violence is conditioned on government domain. cache/s4655d89t0k.txt txt/s4655d89t0k.txt