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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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Unequal Democracies: Economic Sanctions' Impact on Human Rights in Democratic Systems
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the differences between types of democratic governments and their human rights capacities and found that presidential democracies are thought to repress the rights of citizens more often and severely than parliamentary systems.
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“Les catholiques sont l’élite!”: représentations de l’espace politique par une minorité religieuse au Burkina Faso
TL;DR: In this article, a field survey conducted among members of the Catholic community (members of the clergy, religious and lay) in the country of Burkina Faso revealed that the Catholics see their dominant position as under threat from competition by the Protestants and by the rise of Islamism.
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Economic performance and electoral volatility: Testing the economic voting hypothesis on Indian states, 1957–2013:
TL;DR: In this paper, the consequences of variations in economic growth for vote volatility are analyzed on a panel of 14 Indian states between 1957 and 2013, and two measures of volatility are used: changes in party vote s...
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Expropriative Punishment and the 'Second Order Collective Action Problem'
TL;DR: This paper argued that the existence of a state does not exempt societies from generating social order, and that no irreversible, binding delegation of powers is possible: the power of the state, and the coercive capacity required to support it, must spring from within the group and must be continually self-sustaining.
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Pre-war grievances and violence against civilians in civil wars. Evidence from the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia.
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of pre-war grievances as a predictor of violence against civilians in civil wars may have been systematically underestimated because the "grievance hypothesis" has not been properly tested.
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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.