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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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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.
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Can Informed Voters Enforce Better Governance? Experiments in Low-Income Democracies
TL;DR: The authors evaluate a body of recent work that uses field and natural experiments to answer the question of whether informed voters can enforce better governance, finding that voter behavior is malleable and that information about the political process and politician performance improves electoral accountability.
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Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict
TL;DR: This paper explored how culture frames interests, structures demand-making and shapes how opponents can find common ground to produce constructive outcomes to long-term disputes, and the power of cultural expressions to link individuals to larger identities and shape action.
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Crossing the Line: Local Ethnic Geography and Voting in Ghana
Nahomi Ichino,Noah L. Nathan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a voter's assessment of how likely she is to benefit from the election of a particular politician depends on whether she lives among members of the ethnic group associated with that politician's party.
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King Makers: Local Leaders and Ethnic Politics in Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that politicians pursue two distinct modes of nonprogrammatic electoral mobilization: (1) by directly relying on the support of voters from one's own ethnic background, and (2) by indirectly working through electoral intermediaries.
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Informative Regress: Critical Antecedents in Comparative Politics
Dan Slater,Erica S. Simmons +1 more
TL;DR: This article introduced a revised framework for historical analysis that can help systematically uncover historical causation without committing infinite regress, which can help political scientists best uncover historical causality without committing the infinite regress.