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Ethnic conflict: the role of ethnic representation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2023
We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in … results in a large and significant decline in Hindu-Muslim conflict. The average result is driven by richer states and those … curbing civil conflict. …
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Election fraud and post-election conflict : evidence from the Philippines
Crost, Benjamin; Felter, Joseph H.; Mansour, Hani; … - 2013
Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It …-election casualties, which is consistent with the hypothesis that election fraud causes conflict. We conduct several robustness tests and …
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Identity, Grievances, and Economic Determinants of Voting in the 2007 Kenyan Elections
Kimenyi, Mwangi Samson; Romero, Roxana Gutierrez - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2008
What might have caused the post-2007 election violence in Kenya? Was it election irregularities as widely claimed or could it have been simmering ethnic-rivalries waiting to spill over? While not directly focusing on the post-election violence, we investigate a number of issues that divided...
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Do polls create momentum in political competition?
Denter, Philipp; Sisak, Dana - 2013 - This version: October 2013
We explore how public opinion polls affect candidates' campaign spending in political competition. Generally, polls lead to (more) asymmetric behavior. Under a majority rule there always exists an equilibrium in which the initially more popular candidate invests more in the campaign and thereby...
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Religious riots and electoral politics in India
Iyer, Sriya; Shrivastava, Anand - 2015
The effect of ethnic violence on electoral results provides useful insights into voter behaviour in democratic societies. Religious riots have claimed more than 14,000 lives in India since 1950. We study the effect of Hindu-Muslim riots on election results in India. We combine data on riots,...
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Don't Make War, Make Elections - Franchise Extension and Violence in XIXth-Century Colombia
Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2013
of violent civil conflict in nineteenth-century Colombia. Empirically studying the relationship between democracy and … conflict is challenging, not only because of conceptual problems in defining and measuring democracy, but also because … of one simple, measurable dimension of democracy (the size of the franchise) on conflict, while at the same time …
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Analysis of Present Day Election Processes vis-à-vis Elections Through Blockchain Technology
Hegadekatti, Kartik - 2017
Currently, Democracy is realised through representatives elected by the people. These elections are periodic activities. They involve expenditure of big amounts of manpower, money, time and other resources. It is important to note that during an election, the administration and day-to-day lives...
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Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes : Evidence from Europe
Peri, Giovanni - 2020
There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous studies in this literature have focused on a particular country or attack, limiting their generalizability. Ours is the first comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects...
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Elections, Democracy and Urban Political Mobilization in the Developing World
Thomson, Henry - 2019
Rapid urbanization is transforming the developing world, but the political consequences of this transformation are not well understood. In this paper, we argue that political contention and mobilization in the urban environment differs from other forms of political activity in its scale, speed,...
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Strategy and Fundraising in Sequential Majoritarian Elections
Solomon, Adam - 2018
We study dynamic sequential majoritarian campaigns between two players. The winner of the campaign is whomever wins the majority of individual battles. The resource being expended is determined exogenously to the campaign and has no scrap value. We demonstrate, in a fairly general environment,...
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