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Political party strength and electoral violence

Hanne Fjelde
- 02 Jan 2020 - 
- Vol. 57, Iss: 1, pp 140-155
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The role of political agents in electoral violence has also been studied as mentioned in this paper. But, the focus of this work has focused on structural determinants and election-specific characteristics, but has not paid less attention to the role of the political agents that c...
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Existing research on the causes of electoral violence has focused on structural determinants and election-specific characteristics but has paid less attention to the role of political agents that c...

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