This paper will cover a part of the protest-repression nexus, more specifically it will cover the relationship between costs of protests on the government and the government response to the...Show moreThis paper will cover a part of the protest-repression nexus, more specifically it will cover the relationship between costs of protests on the government and the government response to the protests that generate these costs. The following research question will be answered: How do disruption and concession costs effect government response to protests in the United States? This research question will be answered by using a modified data set of 9138 US protests in the time period from January 1st 2020 until March 26th 2021. Quantitative methods will be used, more specifically a multinomial logistic regression and of its output a predictive probability formula will be constructed which can predict the probability of the US government response to protest. These methods will be used to answer three hypotheses, which can in turn answer the research question. The findings of this paper include an unusual relationship between concession costs and the government response of coercion. In addition the government response of coercion seems to be favored over the less repressive response of crowd control.Show less
