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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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Turnout in Transitional Elections: Who votes in Iraq?
TL;DR: The phenomenon of high electoral turnout in Iraq is a puzzling phenomenon despite the country's lack of a democratic past, undeveloped party system, volatile political alliances, inexperienced voters, ethnic politics, and lack of infrastructure as mentioned in this paper.
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Measuring Electoral Competitiveness: With Application to the Indian States
TL;DR: In this article, alternative methods of measuring the competitiveness of a majoritarian electoral system in the context of an analysis of Indian State elections are proposed, which incorporate vote volatility, allow for multi-party competition at the constituency level, and adjust for asymmetry among parties of safe seats in the legislature.
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Geographical Patterns of Analysis in IR Research: Representative Cross-Regional Comparison as a Way Forward
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of 290 research articles published over the last decade in three leading disciplinary journals and argue that non-western cases are indeed underrepresented in the research.
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Human Rights Violations and Post-election Protest:
Sam R. Bell,Svitlana Chernykh +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, human rights violations affect post-election protest, and they have been explained primarily by election-related factors such as the level of manipulation and manipulation level of human rights violation.
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The Role of Electoral, Administration, and Conflict Resolution in Africa: Comparative Study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a comparative study between Ghana and Kenya to find out the extent of association between electoral governance and conflicts in Africa, and the results from the study indicated that all two stated hypotheses were supported by the data.