Election Violence: Domestic and International Determinants of Election Violence
Programme group Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV)
This project, funded through a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, conceptualizes election violence as a sub-type of political violence in which actors employ coercion to affect the electoral process or that arises in the context of electoral competition.
Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG)
Period: 1-2-2014 till 31-1-2018
Recent elections in Afghanistan, Kenya, the Cote D’Ivoire, Nigeria, and Pakistan experienced substantial violence, yet the causes and consequences of election violence remain poorly understood.
A major difficulty in analyzing its causes and consequences is that no comprehensive data source on the incidence of election-related violence exists.
Collect data
To alleviate this problem, the proposed research project will collect data on election violence for all countries with competitive elections for the 1990-2010 period.
Once complete, the data will publicly available.
Develop theoretical arguments
A second objective of the project is to develop theoretical arguments on the domestic and international determinants of election violence. Drawing on existing case study research, the argument posits that the competitiveness and quality of elections affect the likelihood of electoral violence.
With regard to the international determinants of election violence, the proposal hypothesizes that the presence of international organizations supervising the electoral process can induce shifts in the use of violent intimidation, thus increasing the probability of violent intimidation in the pre-election period.
Evaluate the theoretical expectations
The final objective is to systematically evaluate the theoretical expectations using data collected by the project.
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dr. U. Daxecker
U.Daxecker@uva.nl |
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