Parliamentary Elections in Indonesia: President Susilo on the Rise
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2009 The Indonesian parliamentary elections in April 2009 have been characterized as peaceful, free, and fair. All in all, the young democracy has been stabilized.
Andreas Ufen
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Does terrorism work? The debates, problems, and a framework for future research
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2016 For both intellectual and practical reasons, the question “Does terrorism work?” is vital. And yet it has largely been eclipsed by other debates within the scholarly literature on terrorism.
Richard English
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Life events and change in support for political violence in the United States: findings from a 2023 nationally representative survey. [PDF]
Inj EpidemiolBackground A nationally representative longitudinal survey in the USA found a decrease in population-level support for political violence from 2022 to 2023.
Wintemute GJ +6 more
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Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence [PDF]
Review of Economics and StatisticsAbstract Can revenue sharing of resource rents be a source of distributive conflict? Can cohesive institutions avoid such conflicts? We exploit exogenous variation in local government revenues and new data on local democratic institutions in Nigeria to study these questions. We find a strong link between rents and conflict. Conflicts are
Fetzer, T, Kyburz, S
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Invisibilising the victimised: churches in Manicaland and women's experiences of political violence in national healing and reconciliation in Zimbabwe [PDF]
Journal for the Study of Religion, 2017 Zimbabwe's political history from 2000 to the present epoch has been characterized by violence. This violence reached its peak in 2008 when ZANU PF was defeated at the polls by the opposition party, MDC-T.
Molly Manyonganise
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Paradoks Demokrasi di Indonesia: Kerusuhan pada Masa Kampanye Pemilu 1997
JSP: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik, 2002 Democracy in practice ccm prevent political violence in society. Democratic instirutions such as elections can help to avoid political violence because through elections different aspirations among people and groups in society that might become sources ...
Lambang Trijono
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The Entire World’s a Stage: the EU’s Strategic Presence in the Contemporary International Arena [PDF]
Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2011 In the last ten years, an exceptional and diverse series of impacting events—international terrorism, violent conflict situations, war, environmental and natural crises, coups, assassinations and international disputes and challenges— have unfolded. As
Scott Nicholas Romaniuk
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POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA: INTERROGATING PRESS INVOLVEMENT AS VICTIM, VECTOR AND EXTINGUISHER
Ayika, 2021 Violence is among the topics of topmost global concern. Violence is multifaceted and hydra-headed in contemporary times. It has assumed some worrisome dimensions in countries and continents of the world.
Chijioke Odii
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Violence and the Biopolitics of Modernity
Foucault Studies, 2010 The paper studies the relationship between political violence and biological life in the thought of Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault. I follow Foucault in arguing that understanding political violence in modernity means rethinking the ...
Johanna Oksala
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, 2021 Political scientists, pundits, and citizens worry that America is entering a new period of violent partisan conflict. Provocative survey data show that up to 44% of the public support politically motivated violence in hypothetical scenarios. Yet, despite media attention, political violence is rare, amounting to a little more than 1% of violent hate ...
Sean Westwood +3 more
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