Fighting and Voting
Violent Conflict and Electoral Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6284651 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thad Dunning (0000-0003-2757-9000, Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 327-339 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002711400861 |
| OpenAlex | W2130552625 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 91 |
| References cited | 35 |
Two recent research programs—one on the sources of democratic consolidation and another on the causes and consequences of violent conflict—have tended to evolve in relative isolation. The contributions to this special issue of Journal of Conflict Resolution help to bridge this gap, through explicit theoretical and empirical analysis of the relationship between fighting and voting. Armed conflict and electoral politics may be strategic substitutes, in that political actors may optimally choose to submit to the ballot box or instead attempt to impose their will by force; or they may be strategic complements, in that actors use violence to bolster their electoral aims, or use electoral returns as sources of information on underlying preferences that they exploit in armed campaigns. In either case, the distribution of popular support for contending parties can shape not only the incidence but also the type of armed conflict, and it can also influence the incentives of parties to invest in institutional mechanisms that mitigate commitment problems and help to bring violent conflicts to an end. The contributions to this issue illuminate these themes and demonstrate the value of bringing these separate research programs into closer dialogue
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How Radical Environmental Sabotage Impacts US Elections
After Violence
The Insurgent's Dilemma
Democratization and electoral violence in post-communism. A study of Montenegro
Contending Orders
Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters
Power Sharing and Democracy in Post-Civil War States
Political Violence in Kenya
Why Electoral Integrity Matters
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies
Voting in the Shadow of Violence
Vote choice and legacies of violence
Localized electoral effects of terrorism
Quest for identity
Ethnic Composition and Electoral System Design
Political Transitions and Macro-level Foundations of Political Stability
Income and the stability of democracy
A Representative Peace? Opposition Political Parties in Peace Negotiations
Years of Solitude Revisited
Civilian control of political decision-making institutions and civil war
(UN-)Protected Elections – Left for Good? Withdrawal of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and Its Effects on Violence During Electoral Periods in War-Affected Countries
Understanding Electoral Violence through Complex Textual Data
Keeping electoral peace? Activities of United Nations peacekeeping operations and their effects on election-related violence
Why incumbents perpetrate election violence during civil war
Civil conflict and voting behavior
Counterinsurgency as an institution
The Dynamics of the Demobilization of the Protest Campaign in Assam
Elections and Social Conflict in Africa, 1990–2009
A Violent Win
Descriptive representation and conflict reduction
The Meta-violence of Trumpism
Megaprojects as sites for resistance
Voting for Victors
The Art of the Possible
Electoral Cycle Fluctuations in Partisanship
From Bombs to Ballots
The Four Faces of Political Participation in Argentina
Institutions as Incentives for Civic Action
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
The Moderating Effect of Democracy on Climate-Induced Social Conflict
The Drowning-Out Effect
Can Politicians Exploit Ethnic Grievances? An Experimental Study of Land Appeals in Kenya
How and Why Armed Groups Participate in Elections
Electoral violence under different contexts. Evidence from the Western Balkans
Oil Wealth, Post-conflict Elections, and Postwar Peace Failure
An Inquiry into the Use of Illegal Electoral Practices and Effects of Political Violence and Vote-buying
Does Violent Secessionism Work
Blatant electoral fraud and the value of a vote
Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy
Armed Groups and Militarized Elections
Fighting your friends? A study of intra-party violence in sub-Saharan Africa
Candidate nomination, intra-party democracy, and election violence in Africa
Erosion of Civilian Control in Democracies
Elections, Ethnicity, and Political Instability
The Consequences of Contention
The Making of Policy
Political Competition and Ethnic Riots in Democratic Transition
When Do Governments Resort to Election Violence
Systematic Measurement Error in Election Violence Data
Shaping Electoral Outcomes
Surviving Elections
Electoral Institutions and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Protecting the Vote? Peacekeeping Presence and the Risk of Electoral Violence
Politics and social violence in developing democracies
Peace-building and the predatory political economy of insecurity
Voting after war
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India
Political violence in democracies
Perils of pluralism
Endogenous ballot structures
International Criminal Accountability and the Domestic Politics of Resistance
Comparing Independence Referendums
Electoral violence
Feeding unrest
Gender in elections
Democracy in the countryside
Forecasting the onset of genocide and politicide
Revisiting democratic civil peace
The politics of nonviolent mobilization
Using violence, seeking votes
Elections and civil violence in new multiparty regimes
Trust in the executive
Electoral support and militants' targeting strategies
Political life after civil wars
Migrant transnationalism in violent democracies
The Fractured Centre
The Political Violence Cycle
Does Electoral Competition Exacerbate Interethnic or Interpartisan Economic Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Market Price Bargaining
Secular Party Rule and Religious Violence in Pakistan
Self-Enforcing Political Systems and Economic Growth
In the Shadow of Power
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
Self-Enforcing Democracy
Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions
The Monopoly of Violence
From Voting to Violence
Democracy and the Market
Votes and Violence
The Logic of Collective Action
The Logic of Violence in Civil War
Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy
The Logic of Violence
Peace and War With Endogenous State Capacity
Continuation of Politics by Two Means
Electing Displacement
Political Institutions and Street Protests in Latin America
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia’s La Violencia
Rushing to the Polls
Rationalist explanations for war
War as a Commitment Problem
The Making of Policy
Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer than Others
The Inefficient Use of Power
International System and Technologies of Rebellion
International Peacebuilding
Ethnic Clashes' and Winning Elections
| Unique citing works | 91 |
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| Citations per year | 6,5 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 90 |