In the thirty-seventh AOPSSS session, Handi Li (Emory) presented a paper with Daniel Arnon (Arizona) and Pearce Edwards (Emory), about how authoritarian regimes prevent protests. Yaoyao Dai (UNC, Charlotte), Lynette Ong (Toronto), Lauren Young (UC, Davis) provided very thoughtful remarks on a range and theoretical and empirical matters and public attendees chimed in with many valuable comments.