Colombo, Andrea; D'Aoust, Olivia; Sterck, Olivier - European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and … - 2014
We aim at understanding the triggers of electoral violence, which spoiled 80% ofelections in Africa during the last decades. We focus on Burundi, a country wherepolls were organized in 2010, only few months after the end of a long-lasting civilwar. We find that an acute polarization between...