Repression, domestic threat, and interactions in Argentina and Chile

Building from the theoretical literature I posit here that repressors' reac tions to perceived domestic threats in Argentina and Chile from the 1940s t hrough the 1980s are determined in large part by four independent factors: incidence of collective political opposition, policy inertia, policy memory , and pervasive military control The model works reasonably well in both co untries Findings for the two latter, interactive factors in particular sugg est a way that analysts can go beyond the typical additive approach to mode ling state repression (repression as a function of factor X-1 + factor X-2 + factor X-i) to include temporal interactive affects into their analyses. I argue that this approach presents a new and promising direction in our qu est to understand the dynamic nexus between repressors and their opponents.