Political violence and inaccurate metaperceptions. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 The January 6th, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol, which left five dead and hundreds injured, was a stark demonstration that political violence remains a clear and present threat to democratic institutions. Perhaps because of the rarity of such events in the United States’ near past, recent scholarship on political and intergroup conflict has ...
Lees J.
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Political violence in democracies: An Introduction. [PDF]
J Peace ResAbstract It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars to overlook the existence of various forms of political violence within democracies.
Ruggeri A, Daxecker U, Prasad N.
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Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation. [PDF]
J Peace ResAbstract What explains variation in incumbents’ choice of political violence perpetrators? Incumbents often sponsor violence in elections but do not typically engage in it themselves, instead delegating violence to security forces, armed groups, party wings, or regular citizens.
Fubara M.
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Political Violence: A Typology [PDF]
Kriminologijos studijos, 2018 [full article, abstract in English; only abstract in Lithuanian] This paper offers a typology of different forms of political violence, linking them in a continuum and in an interdependent field of forces. The forms identified are systemic violence, institutional violence, group violence, armed struggle, terrorism and war.
Vincenzo Ruggiero
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Current research overstates American support for political violence [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022 Sean J Westwood +2 more
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It’s About Hate: Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia and Support for Political Violence [PDF]
American Politics Research, 2023 James A Piazza, Natalia Van Doren
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The MAGA movement and political violence in 2024: findings from a nationally representative survey. [PDF]
Inj EpidemiolBackground Too little is known about the distribution of risk for committing political violence, a serious concern for the United States. This study explores the association between affiliation with the “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement and ...
Wintemute GJ +5 more
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Deconstructing Buddhist Extremism: Lessons from Sri Lanka
Religions, 2021 This article argues that it is not Buddhism, per se, but rather Buddhist extremism, that is responsible for violence against relevant out-groups. Moreover, it suggests that the causes of Buddhist extremism, rather than being determined solely by textual ...
Kumar Ramakrishna
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Political Violence and Its Economic Consequences: Evidence from Selected Countries of the Middle East and North Africa [PDF]
اقتصاد باثبات, 2022 Uncertainty caused by various economic and non-economic factors has a negative impact on the macroeconomic performance. Macroeconomic instability reduces the predictability of the macroeconomic situation and leads to improper allocation of resources ...
Habib Ansari Samani +2 more
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A Critical Review of the Book Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2022 This article aims at the critical study of the book Violence and Social Orders written by North and his colleagues. Political violence is a frequent phenomenon and has great consequences in the political life of societies.
Ali Karimi Maleh
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