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Rationalising ‘Irrational’ Support for Political Violence [PDF]
, 2012 This paper provides a rationale for group support for political violence in situations where violence does not provide a material benefit. Rabin’s (1993) theory of fairness is adopted to demonstrate that although group violence may not be the equilibrium
Jennings, Colin
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Ideologies that justify political violence
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2020 The present review identifies a variety of tactics that are often employed by ideologies to promote and/or justify political violence. The review builds on a social psychological framework that identifies important existential and epistemic needs that ...
D. Webber +3 more
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Explaining Support for Political Violence: Grievance and Perceived Opportunity
, 2020 What explains support for violence against the state? The surge in survey-based studies in (former) conflict areas has improved our understanding of the determinants of armed conflict.
Karin Dyrstad, Solveig Hillesund
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ConfliBERT: A Pre-trained Language Model for Political Conflict and Violence
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 Analyzing conflicts and political violence around the world is a persistent challenge in the political science and policy communities due in large part to the vast volumes of specialized text needed to monitor conflict and violence on a global scale.
Yibo Hu +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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Frontiers in Political ScienceSince his 2022 spectacular imprisonment wave, El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele has given its name to a political model – Bukelism – often presented as populism in a substantial body of academic literature. In this paper, we argue that populism is not
Marie-Christine Doran +2 more
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How is Political Violence Gendered? Disentangling Motives, Forms, and Impacts
Political Studies, 2019 How is political violence gendered? We connect the traditional political violence literature’s emphasis on categorizing attacks to the gender and politics literature’s analysis of the barriers to women’s political participation.
Gabrielle Bardall +2 more
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ViEWS: A political violence early-warning system
Journal of Peace Research, 2019 This article presents ViEWS – a political violence early-warning system that seeks to be maximally transparent, publicly available, and have uniform coverage, and sketches the methodological innovations required to achieve these objectives.
H. Hegre +20 more
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Political Violence and Crime [PDF]
, 2017 Abstract Political violence includes an array of conducts and events that defy unilateral examination. It may be authorized or unauthorized violence, and while the latter is almost always associated with crime, the former is normally deemed an expression of the legitimate monopoly in the use of force characterizing modern societies ...
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Security, Trade, and Political Violence
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020 This paper studies the effect of security-motivated trade restrictions on economic activity and political violence. We exploit the 2008 restrictions imposed by Israel on imports of selected goods to the West Bank as a quasi-experiment.
Francesco Amodio +2 more
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