Ballots, Bullets, and the Bottom Billion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6287767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arthur A Goldsmith (0000-0002-5786-4809, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 119-132 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of democracy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jod.2012.0023 |
| OpenAlex | W2153343794 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
Competitive, but imperfectly democratic elections have become the predominant mode for selecting political leaders around the globe, even in very poor countries. Such elections are often projected to spark struggles for power by unsanctioned means, yet there has not been a corresponding rise in coups, assassinations, or the onset of civil wars for central control. Using updated datasets on various aspects of political competition over the past 50 years, this article looks carefully at the historical record. Contested elections in low-income nations are associated with the timing of irregular, violent efforts to seize or influence political leadership, but do not correlate with a greater number of such events
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Politics as Vocation
Which Elections Can Be Lost
Elections Without Democracy
Comparative Democratization
Foreign Aid, Democratization, and Civil Conflict
How Foreign Aid Can Foster Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes
What the Democratization Literature Says—or Doesn’t Say—About Postwar Democratization
Elections Under Authoritarianism
Global instances of coups from 1950 to 2010
Introducing Archigos
Good Things to Those Who Wait? National Elections and Government Respect for Human Rights
From Max Weber
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2015 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |