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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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Paying the Price for Patronage : Electoral Violence in Sri Lanka
TL;DR: The authors analyzed electoral violence at the village level in central Sri Lanka, to understand the local dynamics involved, and found that violence directly influenced political participation, voter turnout and voters' mobility.
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Households amid Urban Riots: The Economic Consequences of Civil Violence in India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors uncover the determinants of riot victimization in India and find that households that are economically vulnerable, live in the vicinity of a crime-prone area, and are not able to rely on community support are considerably more prone to suffer from riots than other households.
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Ethnic Politics: An Institutional Complement to Demographic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that four conceptual approaches (demographic, cognitive, behavioral, and institutional) have been used to develop theories in which the mechanism that relates causes to outcomes is ethnic political competition.
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The Diverse Effects of Diversity on Democracy
TL;DR: This paper argued that different types of social diversity have differential effects on regime type, namely, ethno-linguistic diversity increases prospects for democracy while religious diversity decreases prospect for democracy.
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TL;DR: Caroline Pumphrey Triangle Institute for Security Studies The Evolution of a Problem as mentioned in this paper discusses the evolution of climate change as a national security issue and its implications for United States National Security.
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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.