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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 Polarization and Political Violence
Social Science Research Network, 2023 Is political violence and support for political violence more prevalent in democratic societies with high levels of affective polarization? This study argues that affective partisan political polarization fosters dehumanization of opposing partisans ...
James A. Piazza
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Political research quarterly, 2023 As populist parties and politicians have grown in prominence in democracies, scholars have turned their attention to the causes, and consequences, of populist attitudes among citizens.
James A. Piazza
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American Journal of Political Science, 2023 Depression can affect individuals’ attitudes by enhancing cognitive biases and altering perceptions of control. We investigate the relationship between depressive symptoms and Americans’ attitudes regarding domestic extremist violence.
M. Baum +4 more
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The Ideology of Incels: Misogyny and Victimhood as Justification for Political Violence
Terrorism and Political Violence, 2022 A new group of socio-political actors has emerged from the depths of the internet. Thriving in the online Manosphere, the involuntary celibates, or “Incels,” are men who feel they have been victimized by feminism. Initially just another misogynist social
Shannon Zimmerman
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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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Belief in conspiracy theories and attitudes toward political violence
Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 2021 In the last decade, political protest events have been rising in Western democracies. At the same time, there has been a steady increase in the diffusion of conspiracy theories in political communication, a phenomenon that has captured the interest of ...
F. Vegetti, L. Littvay
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Who Supports Political Violence?
Perspectives on Politics, 2022 The last few years have witnessed an increase in democratic “backsliding” in the United States—a decline in the quality of democracy, typically accompanied by an influx of non-normative behavior, such as political violence.
Miles T. Armaly, A. Enders
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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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The Rise of Political Violence in the United States
Journal of Democracy, 2021 :Recent alterations to violent groups in the United States and to the composition of the two main political parties have created a latent force for violence that can be 1) triggered by a variety of social events that touch on a number of interrelated ...
R. Kleinfeld
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