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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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The Political Conditions for Local Peacemaking: A Comparative Study of Communal Conflict Resolution in Kenya:
TL;DR: In this article, government bias has been shown to have a strong impact on the incidence and dynamics of localized ethnic conflions in communal conflicts, and the impact of government bias on the likelihood of reaching a negotiated settlement has been studied.
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Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war
TL;DR: The authors found that exposure to violence is correlated with increased anger and support for punitive justice, including vigilante actions, and that the innocence of the victim, rather than the severity of the crime, is what triggers outrage and punitiveness.
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Fighting your friends? A study of intra-party violence in sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on a less visible and less studied type of political violence, namely violence that occurs within political parties, and use new, district-level data to compare the temporal and...
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Public Goods Transfers and National Unity: Evidence from Post-Soeharto Indonesia
TL;DR: This article examined the factors that influenced the provision of public goods in post-Soeharto Indonesia (1999-2005) using an original district-level dataset, and found that the practical effect of electoral competition on public goods allocation is at best miniscule.
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Explaining Ethnic Violence in Indonesia: Demilitarizing Domestic Security
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine four cases of communal conflict: (1) a case in which intravillage violence was averted, (2), a case of lynching, (3) a lynching and subsequent intervillage reprisals, and (4) a large-scale communal violence.
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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.