Our research is in its third year. It builds on research from earlier funding which found that state controls in authoritarian states typically generate long duration responses in terms of violent resistance and underground organizing. Often seen as a product of Middle East culture, this response to state controls and repression seems to be typical of authoritarian regimes and recently democratizing regimes (e.g. Turkey), which facilitates long duration conflict cycles characterized by protracted conflicts, intensive violence and relatively weak civic institutions and participation. Participation in political actions of any type is centered in informal friendship networks and little with personal resources and the types of community engagements that drive participation in established democracies. Because each extension of this earlier has a distinctive methodology, we discuss these alongside our initial findings minerva.dtic.mil/doc/2013_MinervaResearchSummaries_0905.pdf
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