Annual Review of Political Science The Consequences of Contention: Understanding the Aftereffects of Political Confict and Violence Christian Davenport, 1,2 Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, 2 Hanne Fjelde, 2,3 and David Armstrong 4 1 Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA; email: christiandavenport@mac.com 2 Peace Research Institute Oslo, 0134 Oslo, Norway; email: havnyg@prio.org 3 Department of Peace and Confict Research, Uppsala University, 753 20 Uppsala, Sweden; email: Hanne.Fjelde@pcr.uu.se 4 Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada; email: dave.armstrong@uwo.ca Annu. Rev. Political Sci. 2019. 22:361–77 The Annual Review of Political Science is online at polisci.annualreviews.org https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-050317- 064057 Copyright © 2019 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved Keywords political violence, legacy of violence, outcomes, consequences, aftereffects, contention, civil confict Abstract What are the political and economic consequences of contention (i.e., genocide, civil war, state repression/human rights violation, terrorism, and protest)? Despite a signifcant amount of interest as well as quantitative re- search, the literature on this subject remains underdeveloped and imbal- anced across topic areas. To date, investigations have been focused on par- ticular forms of contention and specifc consequences. While this research has led to some important insights, substantial limitations—as well as op- portunities for future development—remain. In particular, there is a need for simultaneously investigating a wider range of consequences (beyond democracy and economic development), a wider range of contentious ac- tivity (beyond civil war, protest, and terrorism), a wider range of units of analysis (beyond the nation year), and a wider range of empirical approaches in order to handle particular diffculties confronting this type of inquiry (be- yond ordinary least-squares regression). Only then will we have a better 361 Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. 2019.22:361-377. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org Access provided by 3.234.241.41 on 04/22/21. For personal use only.