Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) Book

This book explains why Hindu-Muslim riots in India break out when and where they do, and shows why some state governments in India prevent Hindu-Muslim riots while others do not or even help to incite violence. It shows that riots are fomented to help win elections, and that state governments decide whether to stop them or not depending on electoral calculations about whether doing so will win or lose them voters. It tests this general explanation for riots using a dataset on riots and their causes as well as case studies of several Indian states.Read More

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    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 newly 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.

  • 052182916X
  • 9780521829168
  • Steven I. Wilkinson
  • 19 July 2004
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 312
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