TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Political repression motivates anti-government violence
JO  - Royal Society open science
A1  - Bartusevičius, Henrikas
A1  - van Leeuwen, Florian
A1  - Petersen, Michael Bang
SP  - e221227
EP  - e221227
VL  - 10
IS  - 6
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2054-5703
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221227
ID  - ref1
ER  -