Social Conflict in Africa: A New Database

Salehyan, Idean; Hendrix, Cullen S.; Hamner, Jesse; Case, Christina; Linebarger, Christopher; Stull, Emily; Williams, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/03050629.2012.697426

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“…We retained all events where elections were explicitly mentioned first, second or third as the source of the violence. For a more detailed description of the coding procedure, including search words, see Salehyan et al (2012). In addition, we have reviewed all events coded as relating to democracy and human rights that occurred within a three-month period before or after the election.…”

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Electoral Institutions and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fjelde¹,

Höglund²

2014

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Political violence remains a pervasive feature of electoral dynamics in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, even where multiparty elections have become the dominant mode of regulating access to political power. With cross-national data on electoral violence in Sub-Saharan African elections between 1990 and 2010, this article develops and tests a theory that links the use of violent electoral tactics to the high stakes put in place by majoritarian electoral institutions. It is found that electoral violence is more likely in countries that employ majoritarian voting rules and elect fewer legislators from each district. Majoritarian institutions are, as predicted by theory, particularly likely to provoke violence where large ethno-political groups are excluded from power and significant economic inequalities exist.

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“…64 Salehyan et al 2012. on Lexis Nexis searches of news wires. All events are coded by issue, and in the construction of our dependent variable we focus on those violent events that are coded as explicitly related to elections.…”

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Electoral Institutions and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fjelde¹,

Höglund²

2014

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

132

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“…Conflict Event Data (UCDP-GED) (Sundberg and Melander 2013) and projects such as ACLED (Raleigh et al 2010) and Social Conflict in Africa Database (SCAD) (Salehyan et al 2012) primarily provide data from this continent.…”

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Communication Technology and Reports on Political Violence

Croicu

Kreutz

2016

Political Research Quarterly

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The spread of internet and mobile phone access around the world has implications for both the processes of contentious politics and subsequent reporting of protest, terrorism, and war. In this paper, we explore whether political violent events that occur close to modern communication networks are systematically better reported than others. Our analysis approximates information availability by the level of detail provided about the date of each political violent event in Africa 2008-2010 and find that while access to communication technology improve reporting, the size of the effect is very small. Additional investigation find that the effect can be attributed to the ability of journalists to access more diverse primary sources in remote areas due to increased local access to modern communication technology.

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“…Our last alternative measure for the dependent variable takes advantage of new geo-coded data on social unrest in Africa (Salehyan et al 2012). The "Social Conflict in Africa Database" (SCAD) codes news on a multitude of social conflict events, covering protests, riots, strikes, intercommunal conflict, and government violence against civilians, on the African continent from 1990 to 2011.…”

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Technology and Collective Action: The Effect of Cell Phone Coverage on Political Violence in Africa

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The spread of cell phone technology across Africa has transforming effects on the economic and political sphere of the continent. In this paper, we investigate the impact of cell phone technology on violent collective action. We contend that the availability of cell phones as a communication technology allows political groups to overcome collective action problems more easily and improve in-group cooperation, and coordination. Utilizing novel, spatially disaggregated data on cell phone coverage and the location of organized violent events in Africa, we are able to show that the availability of cell phone coverage significantly and substantially increases the probability of violent conflict. Our findings hold across numerous different model specifications and robustness checks, including cross-sectional models, instrumental variable techniques, and panel data methods.

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Social Conflict in Africa: A New Database

Cited by 321 publications

References 11 publications

Electoral Institutions and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Electoral Institutions and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Communication Technology and Reports on Political Violence

Technology and Collective Action: The Effect of Cell Phone Coverage on Political Violence in Africa

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