About the book:
- Presents a new theory for why the Internet can foster protest but also prevent it
- Introduces a new dataset on political protest in autocracies
- Presents a fine-grained, disaggregated study of political protest at the level of cities in more than 60 autocratic countries
- Illustrates how autocratic control of the population increasingly employs digital tactics
Co-hosted by the University of Oslo and the Peace Research Institute Oslo, the series marks the mutual commitment of the two institutions to collaborate in ensuring Oslo's future as the leading hub for scholarly insight on peace and conflict, manifested in education, research, and interaction with policy-makers and practitioners, as well as engagement in public debate.