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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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Mapping the contours of communal violence in India: A critical engagement with existing scholarship and emerging trends
TL;DR: In this article, a series of concrete formulations and explanations about the nature and trajectory of communal violence in India are expounded, and a rich and varied archive of events and experiences is presented.
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Equal Voting and Common Knowledge: “Best Lights” Understandings of India’s Founding Democratic Constitutionalism
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Political Parties and Violence in Karachi, Pakistan
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors focus on two parties in the violent megacity of Karachi, Pakistan: the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) which outsourced violence to distinct specialists.
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Conflict Over the Commons: Government Bias and Communal Conflicts in Darfur and Eastern Sudan
TL;DR: In this article , the authors identify conditions for intercommunal cooperation and examine what makes such cooperation break down, concluding that government bias can undermine conditions for communal cohabitation, tipping the balance in favor of conflict rather than cooperation.
India - the Role of Civil Society and the State in a Nation Fragmented by Ethnicity and Religion.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have shown that the overall direction of a societal development is mainly dependant on state action and ideology -be it in the shape of national or particularly in the case of India, regional and communal politics.
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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.