Replacement thinking, status threat, and the endorsement of political violence among non-Hispanic white individuals in the US: A cross-sectional study [PDF]
Preventive Medicine ReportsObjective: This study investigates the association between replacement thinking, status threat perceptions, and the endorsement of political violence among non-Hispanic white adults in the United States. It explores how perceived threats to social status
Paul M. Reeping +5 more
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Approval of the National Rifle Association and political violence: findings from a nationally representative survey [PDF]
Injury EpidemiologyBackground The National Rifle Association (NRA) is one of the most widely known social movement organizations in the United States (US). At a time of heightened concern for political violence, we assess individual-level associations between self-reported
Garen J. Wintemute +6 more
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Terrorism and Political Violence, 2019 This article maps mechanisms by which online social media activities may contribute to right-wing political violence. High-impact studies on the wave of right-wing and racist violence in the 1990s and early 2000s established that mass media discourse on ...
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg
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Social network size and endorsement of political violence in the US [PDF]
Injury EpidemiologyBackground In recent years, the United States (US) has witnessed a rise in political violence. Prior research has found that an individual’s social network is associated with their likelihood of engaging in various forms of violence, but research on ...
Julia P. Schleimer +3 more
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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,
Vincenzo Ruggiero
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Approval of extreme right-wing organizations and social movements and support for political violence in the United States: findings from a nationally representative survey [PDF]
Injury EpidemiologyBackground Concern for political violence in the United States remains high. The limited information available indicates that approval of specific extreme right-wing organizations and social movements is associated with support for and willingness to ...
Garen J. Wintemute +6 more
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The Moral Logic of Political Violence.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2018 There is a moral logic to reasoning about political violence. People will often fight not for individual or collective material gain, but because of their commitment to abstract moral and sacred ideas.
Jeremy Ginges
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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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It’s About Hate: Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia and Support for Political Violence [PDF]
American Politics Research, 2023 Natalia Van Doren, James A Piazza
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