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Brendan Nyhan: Measuring Political Violence Without Panic

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Authoritarian Pretexts, Salience, and Forecasting Risk

Nyhan and Pesca examine how pretexts enable repression, controversies like Jimmy Kimmel's removal affect salience, and why violence forecasts are often conditional and hard to evaluate.

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