Votes and violence : electoral competition and ethnic riots in India / Steven I. Wilkinson.

Wilkinson, Steven, 1965-
Call Number
303.6208900954
Author
Wilkinson, Steven, 1965- author.
Title
Votes and violence : electoral competition and ethnic riots in India / Steven I. Wilkinson.
Votes & Violence
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents
The electoral incentives for ethnic violence -- Explaining town-level variation in Hindu-Muslim violence: the Importance of local electoral Incentives -- State capacity explanations for Hindu-Muslim violence -- The consociational explanation for Hindu-Muslim violence -- The electoral incentives for Hindu-Muslim violence -- Party competition and Hindu-Muslim violence -- The electoral incentives for ethnic violence in comparartive perspective -- Democracy and ethnic violence.
Summary
Why do ethnic riots break out when and where they do? Why do some governments try to prevent ethnic riots while others do nothing or even participate in the violence? In this book, Steven I. Wilkinson uses collected data on Hindu-Muslim riots, socio-economic factors and competitive politics in India to test his theory that riots are fomented in order to win elections and that governments decide whether to stop them or not based on the likely electoral cost of doing so. He finds that electoral factors account for most of the state-level variation in Hindu-Muslim riots: explaining for example why riots took place in Gujarat in 2002 but not in many other states where militants tried to foment violence. The general electoral theory he develops for India is extended to Ireland, Malaysia and Romania as Wilkinson shows that similar political factors motivate ethnic violence in many different countries.
Subject
Elections India.
Political violence India.
Ethnic conflict India.
Multimedia
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Summary
Why do ethnic riots break out when and where they do? Why do some governments try to prevent ethnic riots while others do nothing or even participate in the violence? In this book, Steven I. Wilkinson uses collected data on Hindu-Muslim riots, socio-economic factors and competitive politics in India to test his theory that riots are fomented in order to win elections and that governments decide whether to stop them or not based on the likely electoral cost of doing so. He finds that electoral factors account for most of the state-level variation in Hindu-Muslim riots: explaining for example why riots took place in Gujarat in 2002 but not in many other states where militants tried to foment violence. The general electoral theory he develops for India is extended to Ireland, Malaysia and Romania as Wilkinson shows that similar political factors motivate ethnic violence in many different countries.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents
The electoral incentives for ethnic violence -- Explaining town-level variation in Hindu-Muslim violence: the Importance of local electoral Incentives -- State capacity explanations for Hindu-Muslim violence -- The consociational explanation for Hindu-Muslim violence -- The electoral incentives for Hindu-Muslim violence -- Party competition and Hindu-Muslim violence -- The electoral incentives for ethnic violence in comparartive perspective -- Democracy and ethnic violence.
Subject
Elections India.
Political violence India.
Ethnic conflict India.
Multimedia