@article{ref1,
title="Political repression motivates anti-government violence",
journal="Royal Society open science",
year="2023",
author="Bartusevičius, Henrikas and van Leeuwen, Florian and Petersen, Michael Bang",
volume="10",
number="6",
pages="e221227-e221227",
abstract="We examined whether political repression deters citizens from engaging in anti-government behaviour (its intended goal) or in fact motivates it. Analyses of 101 nationally representative samples from three continents (N = 139 266) revealed a positive association between perceived levels of repression and intentions to engage in anti-government violence. Additional analyses of fine-grained data from three countries characterized by widespread repression and anti-government violence (N = 2960) identified a positive association between personal experience with repression and intentions to engage in anti-government violence. Randomized experiments revealed that thoughts about repression also motivate participation in anti-government violence. These results suggest that political repression, aside from being normatively abhorrent, motivates anti-repressor violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2054-5703",
doi="10.1098/rsos.221227",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221227"
}