CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Sartayeva, Botakoz |
|---|---|
| Title | Repression Intensity in Authoritarian Regimes: Case Study of Kazakhstan |
| Summary | The thesis analyzes the influence of coercive state’s capacity and the predictiveness of conflict on the intensity of repression. The state capacity is examined through the scope and cohesion variables. Based on the level of scope and cohesion of the security apparatus and on the degree of predictiveness of the conflict, the resulting repression is categorized as high and low. To test for this relationship, Kazakhstan is taken as a macro regime case and 2011 Zhanaozen protests and 2019 post-presidential elections demonstrations are taken as micro cases. The research concludes that Kazakhstan has both high scope and high cohesion that allow the state to use both intensity types of repression. The difference in chosen repression during two micro cases is explained with the third variable of the predictiveness of conflict. The findings of the master thesis are relevant for contemporary research on repressions, opposition and civil society in soft authoritarian regimes. |
| Supervisor | Inna Melnykovska |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/sartayeva_botakoz.pdf |
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