SCS 1150 Study Guide - Media Manipulation, Black Propaganda, Bilevel Rail Car
14 Jul 2014
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[that] vote: repression: state actions, boykoff, j. (2007): limiting dissent: the mechanisms of state repression in the usa, Develops a typology of 10 action modes and 4 mechanisms that allow elites to stifle resistance: how elite actions raises the costs of activism. Boykoff: action modes: direct violence: the first means the state has turned to historically to crush dissent, he says, has been direct violence, public prosecutions and hearings. Dissidents are often put in jail or so traumatized as to drop their dissident stances or. ---temporarily put them on hold, and current supporters and potential supporters in bystander publics are discouraged from putting forth dissident: employment deprivation activists are deprived of employment because of their political beliefs. Mlk was under surveillance from 1957 until his death: infiltration, badjacketing", and the use of agent provocateurs e. g. montebello quebec: people organized to present their claims at a large event. Police went undercover, with rocks in their hands to try to provoke violence.
