Cover -- Half title -- Series title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace -- Introduction -- Understanding and Ending Repressive Action -- Toward an Investigation of Domestic Democratic Peace -- The Mechanisms of Domestic Peace -- The Fragility of Peace -- Toward a Better Understanding of Democratic Pacification -- 1 Repression and the Search for Peace -- (Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know About State Repression -- 2 Disaggregation and Contextualization -- Disaggregating Repression -- Restrictions or Violence -- Restrictions and Violence -- Disaggregating Democracy -- Voice -- Voice in South Africa -- Veto -- Veto in South Africa -- The Critiques and Relative Capabilities of Voice and Veto -- Bringing Repression Back In -- Voice and Veto in South Africa -- Disaggregating Conflict -- Summary -- 3 Data and Methodology -- Measurement -- State Repression -- Identifying, Measuring, and Assessing the Base Model -- Political Conflict -- Methodological Techniques -- Ordered Probit -- Understanding the Base Model -- Measuring Diverse Aspects of Democracy -- Voice -- Veto -- Summary -- 4 Democratic Pacification: The direct effects of voice and veto -- The Pacifying Effect of Democracy on Repression -- The Influence of Voice -- Suffrage -- Competition and Participation -- The Influence of Veto -- Veto Players -- Executive Constraints -- Combining Models -- Summary -- 5 Peace under Fire: The Interactive effect of democracy and conflict -- Measures of Voice -- Suffrage -- Competition and Participation -- Veto Measures of Democracy -- Veto Players -- Executive Constraints -- Combining Models -- Interactions Concerning Violent Dissent -- Interactions Concerning Civil War -- Summary -- 6 (Re)considering Domestic Peace.

State Repression and Democratic Domestic Peace -- An Overview -- A Sober Second Look -- Future Questions -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Bibliography -- Index.