Violence and Democracy

Staniland, Paul

doi:10.5129/001041514813623128

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“…Nor, with the exception of SCAD, do these datasets identify the issues around which actors' contestation revolve, thus including many events unrelated to the electoral process. 2 These datasets also do not distinguish political parties as separate actors, despite their theoretical importance (Staniland, 2014).…”

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Electoral contention and violence (ECAV): A new dataset

Daxecker

Amicarelli

Jung

2019

Journal of Peace Research

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Recent elections in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Iraq, Kenya, Nigeria, and Pakistan have displayed substantial contestation and violence. A growing literature explores the causes and consequences of electoral contention and violence, but researchers lack comprehensive, disaggregated data establishing a substantive link between elections and violence. The Electoral Contention and Violence (ECAV) dataset conceptualizes electoral contention as nonviolent or violent events of contestation by state or non-state actors related to national elections. The data contain more than 18,000 events of election-related contention covering 136 countries holding competitive national elections between 1990 and 2012. This article describes the scope of ECAV, presents the project’s definition of electoral contention and the variables included, and outlines the coding procedure. We then compare ECAV to other datasets on electoral contention. Cross-national and subnational analyses of electoral competition and violence show that the data are useful for assessing the global and subnational implications of existing theories. ECAV addresses current data limitations by focusing on election-related contention, by using clear criteria to determine whether events are election-related, and by identifying the timing, geocoded location, and actors involved.

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Section: Why New Data On Electoral Contention?mentioning

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Electoral contention and violence (ECAV): A new dataset

Daxecker

Amicarelli

Jung

2019

Journal of Peace Research

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“…Though electoral violence can be a broad concept, 3 studies of it have usually relied on several general measures. Electoral violence has been conceptualized as violent protests against election results, political parties, or opposition groups, 4 as well as attacks by mobs and gangs against visible manifestations of elections, like polling places.…”

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The Dataset of Countries at Risk of Electoral Violence

Birch

Muchlinski

2017

Terrorism and Political Violence

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Electoral violence is increasingly affecting elections around the world, yet researchers have been limited by a paucity of granular data on this phenomenon. This paper introduces and describes a new dataset of electoral violence-the Dataset of Countries at Risk of Electoral Violence (CREV)-that provides measures of 10 different types of electoral violence across 642 elections held around the globe between 1995 and 2013. The paper provides a detailed account of how and why the dataset was constructed, together with a replication of previous research on electoral violence. We introduce this dataset by demonstrating that the CREV, while measuring the same underlying phenomena as other datasets on electoral violence, provides researchers with the ability to draw more nuanced conclusions about the causes and consequences of violence that occurs in connection with the electoral process. We also present and analyze descriptive data from the CREV dataset.

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“…While these reported irregularities reflect a narrow interpretation of electoral integrity, especially violence is often associated with other forms of electoral manipulation, so that they can be expected to constitute an adequate proxy. 74 The unit of analysis is event-election-constituency. 75 To turn news reports into an indicator of clean elections, we focus on two aspects: (1) the severity of incidents reported, and (2) how widespread reported problems were.…”

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Conceptualizing and measuring subnational democracy across Indian states

2019

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India is often credited for its success as the world's largest democracy, but variation in subnational democracy across its states has not been systematically incorporated into scholarship on subnational regimes. This paper develops a conceptualization of subnational democracy based on four constitutive dimensionsturnover, contestation, autonomy and clean electionsand introduces a comprehensive dataset to measure each of the dimensions between 1985 and 2013. The inclusion of Indiaan older parliamentary democracy with a centralized federal systembroadens the universe of cases for the study of subnational regimes, and reveals variation across constitutive dimensions that has not yet been theorized. The paper shows that threats to subnational democracy come from multiple directions, including the central government and non-state armed actors, that subnational variation persists even decades after a transition at the national-level, and that subnational democracy declines in some states in spite of the national democratic track record.

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Violence and Democracy

Cited by 76 publications

References 7 publications

Electoral contention and violence (ECAV): A new dataset

Electoral contention and violence (ECAV): A new dataset

The Dataset of Countries at Risk of Electoral Violence

Conceptualizing and measuring subnational democracy across Indian states

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