Electoral violence covers a range of different manifestations and outcomes, but the concept is unified by its coercive component. Research from the African context suggests that harassment and intimidation are more common than lethal violence (Straus & Taylor, 2012: 17-18, 24), despite the fact that lethal violence is generally better covered and less subject to underreporting in the media ...
(PDF) Electoral violence: An introduction
(For a comprehensive review of literature on electoral violence, see Birch, Daxecker, & Höglund, 2020). ... On the edge: delays in election results and electoral violence in Sub-Sahara Africa Article
Electoral violence: An introduction
Literature review . War. Show details Hide details. Paul F. Diehl. War. 2005. SAGE Knowledge. Book chapter . Terrorism, Civil Wars and Uprisings ... Shaver Andrew C, Wright Austin L (2018) The logic of insurgent electoral violence. American Economic Review 108(11): 3199-3231. Crossref. Google Scholar. Costalli Stefano, Ruggeri Andrea (2015 ...
Electoral Violence Early Warning and Infrastructures for Peace
phenomenon of electoral violence, adva nced electoral violence early warning methodologies and improved structures for prevention and mitigation. Election-related Violence: Impact, Costs and Consequences ... structural factors of election-related violence (Alihodz ÿic« 2011, 29). The literature review ...
The Dataset of Countries at Risk of Electoral Violence
Thanks to this burgeoning literature, scholars have been able to investigate many aspects of this unique category of political violence. ... "From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda," American Political Science Review 103, no. 2 (2009): 231-47; D. A. O. Bekoe, Trends in Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa ...
Electoral Violence
Electoral violence has been a common characteristic of elections in Africa. According to Buchard (), most of the past elections in Africa have been characterized by one form of violence or the other.Electoral violence is revealed in many ways, for instance, intimidation of both candidates and voters, physical harassment, assaulting of journalists, assassinations and unjustified imprisonments ...
Electoral violence: An introduction
We highlight how electoral violence is distinct from other types of organized violence, but also how it is qualitatively different from nonviolent electoral manipulation. The article then surveys what we have learned about the causes and consequences of electoral violence, identifies important research gaps in the literature, and proceeds to ...
(PDF) Election Violence
Our literature review revealed the seven major categories of precipitants of election violence: ... Findings The electoral violence may happen for various causes yet the significant cause is the ...
Fighting for Votes: Theory and Evidence on the Causes of Electoral Violence
The importance of these conditions varies with the type of violence (clashes, intimidation or murders). I test the model using data on the 2010 elections in Burundi. In line with the model, electoral violence before the election was more likely in municipalities characterized by both close political competition and high density of demobilized ...
Robust electoral violence prevention: An example from Ghana
In the first section, we review the literature on electoral violence and prevention efforts. In the second section, we discuss our data. We analyse primary and secondary documents that detail Ghana's violence prevention efforts, as well as news reports and other event count data sources that shed light on their efficacy. To tease out the ...
Education, Disinformation And Electoral Violence
Literature review Conceptualizing electoral violence In order to examine the causes and consequences of the phenomenon at play, one has to define it first. Defining electoral violence entails differentiating it from other forms of violence. Höglund (2009) provides a characterization based on the motive, the actor and the timing of the violence,
Electoral violence prevention: what works?
1. Electoral violence prevention: the concept. Electoral violence prevention has been recognized only relatively recently as a distinct subtype of international electoral assistance, by which we mean organized programmes, undertaken or managed by bodies not based in the state in question, that seek to improve electoral integrity.
Full article: Political Science Knowledge and Electoral Violence
The aim of this article is to contribute to this literature by shedding light on the content of political science research in Africa and its potential to have an impact in one specific area, that of electoral policy. ... Electoral violence should be distinguished from wider political violence, although in practice, motivations and impacts are ...
Violence and the Vote Understanding Electoral Violence in Post-Conflict
Section 1: Literature Review Before reviewing the current theoretical literature on electoral violence it is important to first locate elections in the post-conflict democratization context and highlight the linkages with violent outcomes. Elections are a central element of the democratic process, a necessary component of
Why Electoral Violence Persists in Africa? A Critical Review of Literature
A Critical Review of Literature. April 2023; The African Review 50(2):196-217; ... The existing literature on electoral violence primarily focuses on the concept, causes, impact and prevention ...
PDF Shared Security, Shared Elections
research on the causes of electoral violence and the best practices among practitioners for its prevention. The report consists of a literature review of the existing academic, policy, and practitioner literature as well as an analysis of interviews with practitioners in four countries: Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Sri Lanka.
PDF A REVIEW OF EVIDENCE FROM AFRICA
approaches to mitigating electoral violence. The toolkit aims to help policy makers and program implementers develop a strategic approach to election violence mitigation that specifically engages political party actors. Based on an extensive review of literature and the existing programming approaches, IRI's toolkit
PDF Electoral violence: causes and prevention
Based on a literature review and interviews with practitioners in Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Sri Lanka, AFSC found that electoral violence prevention e ! orts are more successful when: 1. ! ey are implemented under the structure of a strong coalition or consortium.
Electoral Violence and Political Vigilantism in Ghana
The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD) with support from UNDP conducted a research to understand the drivers of political vigilantism and electoral violence and how stakeholders can work together to curb these growing threats, especially as Ghana approaches the 2020 general elections. The study forms part of activities under a UNDP ...
Voting behavior as social action: Habits, norms, values, and
The empirical analysis, based on two German surveys carried out in 1998 and 2017, reveals that the instrumentally rational voting (purposively rational action) emphasized in the classic rational choice theories used in economic electoral research is rather a special case among modal types of action such as habitual voting (traditional action ...
Nearly all of state's attorney hopeful Eileen O'Neill Burke's big
The top 25 individual funders of Eileen O'Neill Burke's bid to be Cook County's top prosecutor include no African Americans and no women, a WBEZ analysis of her Illinois campaign filings has ...
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Electoral violence covers a range of different manifestations and outcomes, but the concept is unified by its coercive component. Research from the African context suggests that harassment and intimidation are more common than lethal violence (Straus & Taylor, 2012: 17-18, 24), despite the fact that lethal violence is generally better covered and less subject to underreporting in the media ...
(For a comprehensive review of literature on electoral violence, see Birch, Daxecker, & Höglund, 2020). ... On the edge: delays in election results and electoral violence in Sub-Sahara Africa Article
Literature review . War. Show details Hide details. Paul F. Diehl. War. 2005. SAGE Knowledge. Book chapter . Terrorism, Civil Wars and Uprisings ... Shaver Andrew C, Wright Austin L (2018) The logic of insurgent electoral violence. American Economic Review 108(11): 3199-3231. Crossref. Google Scholar. Costalli Stefano, Ruggeri Andrea (2015 ...
phenomenon of electoral violence, adva nced electoral violence early warning methodologies and improved structures for prevention and mitigation. Election-related Violence: Impact, Costs and Consequences ... structural factors of election-related violence (Alihodz ÿic« 2011, 29). The literature review ...
Thanks to this burgeoning literature, scholars have been able to investigate many aspects of this unique category of political violence. ... "From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda," American Political Science Review 103, no. 2 (2009): 231-47; D. A. O. Bekoe, Trends in Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa ...
Electoral violence has been a common characteristic of elections in Africa. According to Buchard (), most of the past elections in Africa have been characterized by one form of violence or the other.Electoral violence is revealed in many ways, for instance, intimidation of both candidates and voters, physical harassment, assaulting of journalists, assassinations and unjustified imprisonments ...
We highlight how electoral violence is distinct from other types of organized violence, but also how it is qualitatively different from nonviolent electoral manipulation. The article then surveys what we have learned about the causes and consequences of electoral violence, identifies important research gaps in the literature, and proceeds to ...
Our literature review revealed the seven major categories of precipitants of election violence: ... Findings The electoral violence may happen for various causes yet the significant cause is the ...
The importance of these conditions varies with the type of violence (clashes, intimidation or murders). I test the model using data on the 2010 elections in Burundi. In line with the model, electoral violence before the election was more likely in municipalities characterized by both close political competition and high density of demobilized ...
In the first section, we review the literature on electoral violence and prevention efforts. In the second section, we discuss our data. We analyse primary and secondary documents that detail Ghana's violence prevention efforts, as well as news reports and other event count data sources that shed light on their efficacy. To tease out the ...
Literature review Conceptualizing electoral violence In order to examine the causes and consequences of the phenomenon at play, one has to define it first. Defining electoral violence entails differentiating it from other forms of violence. Höglund (2009) provides a characterization based on the motive, the actor and the timing of the violence,
1. Electoral violence prevention: the concept. Electoral violence prevention has been recognized only relatively recently as a distinct subtype of international electoral assistance, by which we mean organized programmes, undertaken or managed by bodies not based in the state in question, that seek to improve electoral integrity.
The aim of this article is to contribute to this literature by shedding light on the content of political science research in Africa and its potential to have an impact in one specific area, that of electoral policy. ... Electoral violence should be distinguished from wider political violence, although in practice, motivations and impacts are ...
Section 1: Literature Review Before reviewing the current theoretical literature on electoral violence it is important to first locate elections in the post-conflict democratization context and highlight the linkages with violent outcomes. Elections are a central element of the democratic process, a necessary component of
A Critical Review of Literature. April 2023; The African Review 50(2):196-217; ... The existing literature on electoral violence primarily focuses on the concept, causes, impact and prevention ...
research on the causes of electoral violence and the best practices among practitioners for its prevention. The report consists of a literature review of the existing academic, policy, and practitioner literature as well as an analysis of interviews with practitioners in four countries: Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Sri Lanka.
approaches to mitigating electoral violence. The toolkit aims to help policy makers and program implementers develop a strategic approach to election violence mitigation that specifically engages political party actors. Based on an extensive review of literature and the existing programming approaches, IRI's toolkit
Based on a literature review and interviews with practitioners in Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Sri Lanka, AFSC found that electoral violence prevention e ! orts are more successful when: 1. ! ey are implemented under the structure of a strong coalition or consortium.
The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD) with support from UNDP conducted a research to understand the drivers of political vigilantism and electoral violence and how stakeholders can work together to curb these growing threats, especially as Ghana approaches the 2020 general elections. The study forms part of activities under a UNDP ...
The empirical analysis, based on two German surveys carried out in 1998 and 2017, reveals that the instrumentally rational voting (purposively rational action) emphasized in the classic rational choice theories used in economic electoral research is rather a special case among modal types of action such as habitual voting (traditional action ...
The top 25 individual funders of Eileen O'Neill Burke's bid to be Cook County's top prosecutor include no African Americans and no women, a WBEZ analysis of her Illinois campaign filings has ...