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Electoral Violence and the Struggle for Democratization


Electoral Violence and the Struggle for Democratization - Diva Portal

Essay III examines how political violence influenced interparty negotiations during Turkey's 2011–2013 constitution-making process. Essay IV finds that in ...

Precarious Paths to Democracy: Electoral Violence and the Struggle ...

Essay III examines how political violence influenced interparty negotiations during Turkey's 2011–2013 constitution-making process. Essay IV ...

Why Electoral Violence Starts—and How It Can End - Foreign Policy

Violent rhetoric may therefore become a deliberate populist strategy. And violence cascades down from the top. The narrative of violence often ...

Electoral violence in democratizing states - Index of /

The literature on political violence provides a range of relevant hypotheses that could explain why electoral competition turns violent. The institutionalist ...

Violence and Democracy - jstor

This kind of electoral violence does not have a clear effect on political stability. On the one hand, if they become locked into the systems of violent ...

Violent Elections and Citizens' Support for Democratic Constraints ...

To start with, election violence enhances the salience of the political cleavage between ruling and opposition party supporters. In violent elections, ...

Electoral Violence as a Side Product of Democratization in Africa

2.2 LINDBERG'S THEORY OF ELECTIONS AS A MODE OF TRANSITION. Rather than marking a failure in the democratization process, electoral violence may simply ...

Examining the relationship between electoral violence, State ...

Kovacs defined electoral violence as 'violent or coercive acts carried out for the purpose of affecting the process or results of an election [6] ...

Electoral violence - King's College London Research Portal

Dunning, Thad (2011) Fighting and voting: Violent conflict and electoral politics. ... Snyder, Jack (2000) From Voting to Violence: Democratization and ...

Polarization, Democracy, and Political Violence in the United States

But only 18 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaners feel gun violence is a major problem (versus 73 percent of Democrats and Democratic- ...

How to Prevent Political Violence | Journal of Democracy

Violent Parties, Polarization, and Democratic Disconnection. In the United States, political violence is extremely asymmetric, but nonetheless exists across the ...

Democratization and Political Violence - Our World

In most cases, however, this violence eventually gives way to non-violent politics — with violence typically bcoming less serious after a few elections have ...

Fear of campaign violence and support for democracy and autocracy

Our findings have important implications for democratic survival and provide further impetus for reducing electoral violence. Keywords. African politics, ...

Democratization and Peace after Civil War—What Difference Can ...

The article theorizes three mutually reinforcing mechanism or avenues of how post-conflict democratization may lead to renewed violence: (1) ...

Electoral Violence in Conflict-Ridden Societies: Concepts, Causes ...

This article argues for a conceptualization of electoral violence as a specific sub-category of political violence, determined mainly by its timing and target.

STATE OF THE ART - On the Prevention of Election Violence

However, a USIP study,. “Elections and Violent Conflict in Kenya: Making Prevention Stick,” revealed that ordinary Kenyans disagreed with the opti- mistic ...

Democracy in Crisis | Freedom House

... violent struggle. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan broadened and ... A deeply flawed electoral process in Kenya contributed to political violence ...

Political party strength and electoral violence - Hanne Fjelde, 2020

Existing research on the causes of electoral violence has focused on structural determinants and election-specific characteristics but has ...

Explaining electoral violence in Africa's 'new' democracies*

In the aftermath of an election, electoral violence may take the form of violent protests against electoral rigging, whether real or imagined, and of the ...

The Politics of Violence in Democratization: Lessons from Kenya ...

Opposition actors, too, may choose violent tactics, and some forms of violence emerge as an unintended consequence of complex strategic interactions. However, ...


Latin American Politics And Development

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