Electoral violence in authoritarian regimes: locations and determinants of government coercion

Diplôme Thèse Electoral violence in authoritarian regimes: locations and determinants of government coercion eng 2019-03-11 author Evequoz Aurélien 652939 director Hug Simon 0000-0002-7741-2201 23847 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:116727 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1167279 SdS 111 What makes some regions within a country more likely to experience electoral violence than others ? Based on this initial question, this Ph.D. thesis uncovers the mechanisms driving incumbent elites to use violence as an electoral tactic in non-democratic regimes. The local determinants of electoral coercion are investigated by means of a subnational and cross-national research design. The analyses are conducted using a newly collected dataset comprising events of electoral violence at the constituency-level for 71 elections held in 14 countries. Among the key findings of the thesis are that authoritarian regimes are most likely to perpetrate violence where the opposition has an intermediate level of electoral strength, where the populations are economically vulnerable, where there are no alternative means to manipulate the election and where the electoral support for the regime is declining. Violence Elections Authoritarian Regimes Dewey 320 121 Département de science politique et relations internationales T3 false a2f4ae3a-1777-4ea9-84dd-d09cfe13a3e6 Thesis Restricted DissertationEvequoz.pdf 13999090 application/pdf f3519dddde6e2bf56504b4f4c6deed9d6dedc456e5643666ca2dcba433efa4da restrictedAccess Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de science politique et relations internationales

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