Contents -- Introduction. Repression and Mobilization: Insights from Political Science and Sociology -- Part I. Under the Microscope: Toward a Better Understanding of Causal Dynamics -- 1. Protest Mobilization, Protest Repression, and Their Interaction -- 2. Precarious Regimes and Matchup Problems in the Explanation of Repressive Policy -- 3. The Dictator's Dilemma -- Part II. Moving Beyond, Moving Into: Developing New Insights -- 4. When Activists Ask for Trouble: State-Dissident Interactions and the New Left Cycle of Resistance in the United States and Japan -- 5. Talking the Walk: Speech Acts and Resistance in Authoritarian Regimes -- 6. Soft Repression: Ridicule, Stigma, and Silencing in Gender-Based Movements -- Part III. Media, Measurement, and Contention -- 7. Repression and the Public Sphere: Discursive Opportunities for Repression against the Extreme Right in Germany in the 1990s -- 8. On the Quantification of Horror: Notes from the Field -- Part IV. Reflections and Future Directions -- 9. Repression, Mobilization, and Explanation -- 10. How to Organize Your Mechanisms: Research Programs, Stylized Facts, and Historical Narratives -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.