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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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Is fiscal decentralization conflict abating? Routine violence and district level government in Java, Indonesia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between routine/everyday violence and fiscal decentralization in 98 districts of the Indonesian island of Java and examined possible relationships between decentralization and routine violence.
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Group Entitlement, Anger and Participation in Intergroup Violence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that participants in intergroup violence are motivated by the emotion of intergroup anger, which is triggered by a comparison between the intergroup distribution of resources and the distribution that is believed to be desirable.
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The determinants of low-intensity intergroup violence The case of Northern Ireland
TL;DR: This paper explored the determinants of low-intensity sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, which has marked the post-1998 peace agreement period, and argued that this violence is more likely and prevalent in interface areas where similarly sized rival communities are geographically in contact with each other.
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The Pacifying Effects of Local Religious Institutions An Analysis of Communal Violence in Indonesia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the effect of density of local religious institutions on the probability of mass violence in communities. But they find that the effect is weak or absent in conflicts that evolve along explicitly religious cleavages.
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Vote choice and legacies of violence: Evidence from the 2014 colombian presidential elections
TL;DR: In countries facing ongoing civil conflicts, including in India, Iraq, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Ukraine, citizens frequently go to the polls having endured years of civil conflict as discussed by the authors.
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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.