Consider What Would Happen If the Civil Society Was Sufficiently

question 9

Short Answer

consider what would happen if the civil society was sufficiently strong that it would respond to repression by the soft-liners with an armed insurgency. Also consider what would happen if both actors considered facing an armed insurgency to be the worst possible outcome. (See Figure 2.)
Figure 2: Soft-liner Elite Confronts a Strong Civil Society

-What is the expected outcome of this game?

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