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Votes and violence : electoral competition and ethnic riots in India /
"Why does ethnic violence break out in some places and not others? More important, why do some governments try to prevent antiminority riots while others do nothing, or even actively encourage attacks? This book answers these questions through a detailed study of Hindu-Muslim riots in India, as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Why does ethnic violence break out in some places and not others? More important, why do some governments try to prevent antiminority riots while others do nothing, or even actively encourage attacks? This book answers these questions through a detailed study of Hindu-Muslim riots in India, as well as case studies of Ireland, Malaysia, and Romania. It shows how electoral incentives at two levels interact to explain both where violence breaks out and, more importantly, why some states decide to prevent mass violence and others do not While developing this electoral incentives model, the author shows why several alternative explanations for ethnic violence - focusing on town-level social and economical factors, the weak capacity of the Indian state, or India's alleged lack of "consociational power sharing"--Cannot explain the observed variation in Hindu-Muslim riots."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511211724 9780511211720 052182916X 9780521829168 0511217099 9780511217098 0511215304 9780511215308 9780511510458 0511510454 1107147727 9781107147720 1280540524 9781280540523 0511327315 9780511327315 0511213492 9780511213496 9780521536059 0521536057 |