Political Effects of State-Led Repression

María Angélica Bautista
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María Angélica Bautista: University of Chicago

Chapter Chapter 2 in The Pinochet Shock, 2025, pp 7-29 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter provides empirical evidence of the long-run impact of state repression on the political preferences and participation of the repressed. María Angélica Bautista develops a theoretical framework to generate hypotheses about the impact of repression and collects a unique dataset in Chile, where she surveyed subjects who experienced repression, and builds a matched control group. She finds two main sets of robust results consistent with the theory. First, repressed people do not differentially change their political ideology on a left-right scale. Repression leads people to neither conform to the ideology of the dictatorship nor induce a “backlash.” Second, repression leads to political demobilization. In particular, repression leads to a lower probability of membership of the repressed in political parties relative to the non-repressed, even after the dictatorship has left power.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78825-3_2

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