@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {4933},
      author = {Bueno de Mesquita, Ethan and Shadmehr, Mehdi},
      title = {Rebel Motivations and Repression},
      journal = {American Political Science Review},
      address = {2022-09-06},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {How do different types of motivation influence the  politics of collective action? We study a model of  endogenous rebellion and repression to understand how  different types of individual motivation affect  participation, state repression, and the mechanisms by  which state violence affects political contention. Unlike  psychological rewards, material rewards are divided among  successful rebels. Thus, in material rewards settings,  repression that decreases mobilization and chances of  success also increases participants’ share of the rewards,  reducing repression’s effect. Consequently, materially  rather than psychologically motivated groups are less  affected by repression and face less repression, but they  are also less able to turn early failures into future  successes. Moreover, because repression is more effective  and used more when rebels are psychologically motivated,  rebel motivations are a confounder in estimates of the  relationship between repression and mobilization. This can  lead to overestimation of repression’s effect and to more  statistically significant results exactly when repression  is more effective.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/4933},
}