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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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SPOT-CARP symposium and collective dissent: a cross-national and sub-national analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a novel approach to solve the problem of homonymity in the context of homophily: the concept of "homophily" is introduced.
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Strategic Interaction Between Rebels and the State: A Study of the Maoist Conflict in Nepal
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that strategic interaction between rebels and the state explains why the conflict led to negotiated settlement in Nepal and introduce a game theoretic model to discuss the sequence of rebel-state interaction.
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Bystander responses and xenophobic mobilization
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the relationship between institutional opportunities and decisions to mobilize may take the form of trickle-down politics, and investigate how extreme right activists are influenced by bystander responses that are evoked by the wider political context.
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Follow the majority? How voters coordinate electoral support to secure club goods
TL;DR: The authors found that voters often favor candidates who benefit them individually but may coordinate their support with their social group on other candidates in exchange for policies targeting their group, which highlights the role strategic considerations play in the formation of group-based electoral coalitions.