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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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Where identity and trauma converge: Hindu-Muslim perceptions of the 2002 Gujarati riots
Nishant G. Patel,Sanjay R. Nath +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that cultural identity shapes views of others and the discrepant processing of collective violence and trauma by individual members of two religious groups with a history of communalism with a modified grounded theory approach for qualitative data.
Ethno-Religious Issues and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Cases of Nigeria and Kenya
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of ethnicity and religion on the electoral process in Nigeria and Kenya is examined and the issues or factors that make elections conduct in both countries to be violent prone and undermine attempts at institutionalizing a stable democratic tradition.
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Touch Thee Not: Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India
Indraneel Dasgupta,Sarmistha Pal +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India and find that any increase in the collective resource endowment (power) of this bloc will increase the likelihood of an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu household practising it.
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Ethnic Parties in New Democracies: The Case of Myanmar 2015
Jangai Jap,Adam Ziegfeld +1 more
TL;DR: For example, this article found that ethnic parties performed poorly in the 2015 election, winning just over 11% of the elected seats in the lower legislative house in Myanmar's lower legislative body, which was the country's first democratic transfer of power.
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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.