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Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India.
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This article is published in Nations and Nationalism.The article was published on 2006-01-01. It has received 442 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Electoral geography & Competition (economics).read more
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How Government Structure Encourages Criminal Violence: The causes of Mexico's Drug War
TL;DR: This article argued that the propensity of criminal groups to deploy violence increases when formal or informal political institutions are decentralized because violent criminal organizations are less likely to be punished because they are untouched by law enforcement.
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State Incapacity by Design: Understanding the Bihar Story
Santhosh Mathew,Mick Moore +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the Bihar state government sacrificed large potential fiscal transfers from the Government of India designed for anti-poverty programmes because it was unable to complete the relevant bureaucratic procedures.
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Subnational Research in Comparative Politics: Substantive, Theoretical, and Methodological Contributions
TL;DR: Subnational politics has a prominent and long-standing tradition of studying politics not across countries but inside them, especially by zooming down to subnational units as mentioned in this paper, which is conventionally seen as the study of politics across countries.
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Capturing ethnicity: the case of Ukraine
Olga Onuch,Henry E. Hale +1 more
TL;DR: This paper identified four dimensions of ethnicity that are each important in distinctive ways in Ukraine: individual language preference, language embeddedness, ethnolinguistic identity, and nationality, and showed that the choice of one over the other can be highly consequential for the conclusions one draws about ethnicity's role in shaping attitudes, actions, and the anticipation of outgroups' behavior.
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How Governments Shape the Risk of Civil Violence: India's Federal Reorganization, 1950-56
TL;DR: The authors showed that representation in the ruling party conditioned the likelihood of a violent statehood movement in India during India's reorganization as a linguistic federation, and that very politically disadvantaged groups refrained from mobilization, anticipating repression.
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Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict: A Configurational Analysis of a New Global Data Set
TL;DR: The authors show that states characterized by certain ethnopolitical configurations of power are more likely to experience violent conflict, such as armed rebellions, infighting, and seceding from the United States.
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From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present evidence for a link between war, violence and increased individual political participation and leadership among former combatants and victims of violence, and use this link to understand the deeper determinants of individual political behavior.
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Political Competition and Ethnic Identification in Africa
Abstract: This article draws on data from over 35,000 respondents in 22 public opinion surveys in 10 countries and finds strong evidence that ethnic identities in Africa are strengthened by exposure to political competition. In particular, for every month closer their country is to a competitive presidential election, survey respondents are 1.8 percentage points more likely to identify in ethnic terms. Using an innovative multinomial logit empirical methodology, we find that these shifts are accompanied by a corresponding reduction in the salience of occupational and class identities. Our findings lend support to situational theories of social identification and are consistent with the view that ethnic identities matter in Africa for instrumental reasons: because they are useful in the competition for political power.
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What is ethnic identity and does it matter
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that ethnicity either does not matter or has not been shown to matter in explaining most outcomes to which it has been causally linked by comparative political scientists.
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Decentralization: Fueling the Fire or Dampening the Flames of Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism?
TL;DR: In this article, a statistical analysis of thirty democracies from 1985 to 2000 shows that decentralization may decrease ethnic conflict and secessionism directly by bringing the government closer to the people and increasing opportunities to participate in government, but it also encourages the growth of regional parties.