Electoral violence
An introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3918441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Birch (0000-0001-6457-1310, King's College London), Ursula Daxecker (0000-0003-2372-7192, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author), Kristine Höglund (0000-0001-7167-609X, Uppsala University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-14 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022343319889657 |
| OpenAlex | W2981949700 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 83 |
| References cited | 101 |
Elections are held in nearly all countries in the contemporary world. Yet despite their aim of allowing for peaceful transfers of power, elections held outside of consolidated democracies are often accompanied by substantial violence. This special issue introduction article establishes electoral violence as a subtype of political violence with distinct analytical and empirical dynamics. 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 discuss the articles included in the special issue. The contributions advance research in four domains: the micro-level targeting and consequences of electoral violence, the institutional foundations of electoral violence, the conditions leading to high-stakes elections, and electoral violence in the context of other forms of organized violence. The individual articles are methodologically and geographically diverse, encompassing ethnography, survey vignette and list experiments and survey data, quantitative analyses of subnational and crossnational event data, and spanning Africa, Latin America, and Asia
Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Geography · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Structural violence · Vignette · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Political party elite and election-related violence in Nigeria
The Limiting Effects of Inconclusive Gubernatorial Elections towards the Democratic Consolidation of the Nigerian State
Autocratization Verity
Violence against Women in Politics
The “Subalternity” of Women in Social Movements and African Politics
The “Subalternity” of Women in Social Movements and African Politics
It’s Us against Them”
Three Outcomes of Contentious Elections
The Forum
The Consequences of Violence for Women’s Candidacy in Legislative Elections
Continuing Disputes and Validity of Voting for the Regent and Deputy Regent of Yalimo Regency in Papua Indonesia
“Democracias Iliberais” em África ou Evolução do Patrimonialismo Pós-moderno? Os casos de Angola e Moçambique
Social Media Regulation and Autocratisation in Nigeria under Buhari
Localized electoral effects of terrorism
I feared for my life”
Foreign Aid, Violence, and Electoral Support in Developing Countries
Voting and Violence in Competitive Autocracies
The Evolution of Civil Wars Research
The Power of Appointment
Majority ethnonationalist ethnic riot and protest in 18 European countries
(UN-)Protected Elections – Left for Good? Withdrawal of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and Its Effects on Violence During Electoral Periods in War-Affected Countries
Fear of campaign violence and support for democracy and autocracy
Why incumbents perpetrate election violence during civil war
Storms, floods, landslides and elections in India's growing metropolises
Intraparty violence
Gendered violence in state house races
Illicit gains and state capture
When armed groups refuse to carry out election violence
Challenging the status quo
Chiefs and Pre-Election Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Vulnerability to Climate Change and Communal Conflicts
Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters
Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
Contentious cities? Urban growth and electoral violence in Africa
Organizing transnational party resistance
A Violent Win
Election violence prevention during democratic transitions
Extreme weather and contentious elections
The conditions for reducing electoral violence through constitutional reform
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war
How United Nations peace operations can help overcome perils to post-conflict elections
Predicting armed conflict using protest data
From Cooptation to Violence
Demand and Supply of Criminal Governance
Le défi nativiste à la démocratie libérale1
Silenced Voices
Political violence and invalid voting
Elite Competition, Social Movements, and Election Violence in Nigeria
Entre la identidad y la ideología
The Electoral Legacies of Civil War Violence
Research note
Navigating through mafias, dons, and the ‘dark’ world
Introducing the Philippine Electoral Violence (PEV) data set
Spatial Dynamics of Election Violence
The Effect of Wartime Legacies on Electoral Mobilization after Civil War
The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation
Finding Meaning in Politics
Ethiopia's civil wars
Violence among State House Candidates during the Covid‐19 Pandemic
Voter Intimidation as a Tool of Mobilization or Demobilization? Evidence from West Bengal, India
Viewing Violence through a Partisan Lens
The Violent Legacy of Fascism
Political Parties and Violence in Karachi, Pakistan
Violent Elections and Citizens’ Support for Democratic Constraints on the Executive
Shaping Electoral Outcomes
Protecting the Vote? Peacekeeping Presence and the Risk of Electoral Violence
Political violence in Africa and the search for an ideal democracy model
Election type and the logic of pre-election violence
ViEWS2020
Democracy dismissed
Political violence in democracies
Democratic elections and anti-immigration attitudes
The subnational electoral coercion in India (Seci) data set, 1985-2015
The new wave of international authoritarian populism of the 2010s has also arrived in Africa? The Mozambique and Angolan cases
Does political violence backfire in mature democracies? Evidence from the Capitol insurrection in the USA
Political violence and anti-system voting in interwar Italy
Polls of fear? Electoral violence, incumbent strength, and voter turnout in Côte d'Ivoire
Local ethno-political polarization and election violence in majoritarian vs. proportional systems
Renting political violence
Party competition and the limits of electoral coercion
Engineered non-contestation
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence
Electoral Integrity and Turnout in a Context of Violence at the Sub-National Level in Mexico, 2015-2018
Eclectic ties and election touts
Electoral Malpractice
Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics
From Voting to Violence
Votes and Violence
Rule by Violence, Rule by Law
Patronage politics and electoral violence in Lagos, Nigeria
Electoral Violence, Corruption, and Political Order
The Credibility Challenge
Electing Peace
Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Elections in Hard Times
The Politics of Uncertainty
Electing to Fight
Voting in the Shadow of Violence
Do Parties Matter for Ethnic Violence? Evidence From India
Paying the Price for Patronage
Democracy and civil war
Triggers and Characteristics of the 2007 Kenyan Electoral Violence
Issues and Actors in African Nonstate Conflicts
Violence, bribery, and fraud
Elections and Social Conflict in Africa, 1990–2009
Votes and Violence
Restrained or constrained? Elections, communal conflicts, and variation in sexual violence
The Effect of Elections on Postconflict Peace and Reconstruction
Making Gender Visible in Election Violence
Fear of Electoral Violence and its Impact on Political Knowledge in Sub-Saharan Africa
We need to go deeper
Elections and Civil War in Africa
How and Why Armed Groups Participate in Elections
Elections Without Democracy
An Inquiry into the Use of Illegal Electoral Practices and Effects of Political Violence and Vote-buying
Time to Kill
Fraud Is What People Make of It
Fighting and Voting
Pragmatic and Promiscuous
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia’s La Violencia
The Risks of Election Observation
Armed Groups and Militarized Elections
Information and Self-Enforcing Democracy
From Sticks to Carrots
Who are the targets of familial electoral coercion? Evidence from Turkey
Electoral violence prevention
Candidate nomination, intra-party democracy, and election violence in Africa
Elections and Ethnic Civil War
Politically Allocated Land Rights and the Geography of Electoral Violence
Electoral Systems and Electoral Misconduct
Why Did Drug Cartels Go to War in Mexico? Subnational Party Alternation, the Breakdown of Criminal Protection, and the Onset of Large-Scale Violence
Buying, Expropriating, and Stealing Votes
Electoral Fraud or Violence
When Do Governments Resort to Election Violence
Systematic Measurement Error in Election Violence Data
Surviving Elections
Electoral Institutions and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Violence and Democracy
Violence in African Elections
Mercenaries of democracy
Criminal Politics
Electoralfraud
Forging political entrepreneurs
The effect of alternation in power on electoral intimidation in democratizing regimes
Does electoral violence affect vote choice and willingness to vote? Conjoint analysis of a vignette experiment
Timing and targeting of state repression in authoritarian elections
Electoral violence and the legacy of authoritarian rule in Kenya and Zambia
The Dataset of Countries at Risk of Electoral Violence
Mitigating election violence locally
Perils of pluralism
Ideology in Context
Deadly elections
Vote buying and violence in Nigerian election campaigns
All quiet on election day? International election observation and incentives for pre-election violence in African elections
From ballots to bullets
A New Typology of Electoral Violence
Electoral Violence in Conflict-Ridden Societies
From a perpetrator's perspective
Votes and violence
Land grievances and the mobilization of electoral violence
Patterned pogroms
Intimidating voters with violence and mobilizing them with clientelism
Electoral contention and violence (Ecav)
Political party strength and electoral violence
Carrots and sticks
Dangerously informed
Who dissents? Self-efficacy and opposition action after state-sponsored election violence
Pre-election violence and territorial control
Raising the stakes
Elections and civil violence in new multiparty regimes
Unequal votes, unequal violence
The cost of exposing cheating
The Political Violence Cycle
Secular Party Rule and Religious Violence in Pakistan
The Consequences of Victimization on Political Identities
The Contradictions of Pre-election Violence
| Unique citing works | 83 |
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| Citations per year | 13,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 80 |