StateRepression.com

StateRepression.com is a webpage undertaken at the University of Kansas and sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the General Research Fund at the University of Kansas. The database includes all protests or acts of dissent and state repressive events with no size minimums or maximums. It only included events with an identifiable size and location. Protests are considered actions that show disapproval of particular policies or events (typically instigated by the government). Coercion is the forcing someone or a particular group to do something against their will using threats and causing fear. Examples of events, of which there are 83 listed and defined in the database's Codebook, are: strikes, hunger strikes, occupations, vigils, assassinations, kneecapping, bombings, and gunfights.