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Electoral Violence
POLI 120N: Contention and Conflict in Africa Professor Adida
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Democratization in Africa
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Polity Score• Country experts code countries on
• Executive recruitment• Constraints on executive authority• Political competition
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Democratization in Africa
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Democratization Factors• External influence
✓ Changes in WB model of development
✓ End of Cold War
✓ New technologies for mass communication
✓ French model (bicentennial)
✓ US aggressively promoting democracy by 1990
• Internal influence
✓ Backlash against WB SAPs
✓ Legitimacy crisis
✓ Mandela’s release
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Q: True or False, according to the Polity project, Africa today is more autocratic than any other region of the world
a. Trueb. False
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Democratization = Stability?.8
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Council on Foreign Relations
Democratization = Stability?
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Arriola and Johnson 2012
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Arriola and Johnson 2012
1985-2005
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“... the crude simplicity of multiparty elections, which allows some of the world’s most notorious autocrats to parade democratic
credentials without reforming their repressive regimes.”
Claude Ake (1991)
The electoral fallacy
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theguardian.com
aviewfromthecave.com
globalpost.com
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salon.com
allafrica.com
theguardian.com
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Electoral violence (Straus and Taylor)
• Definition: physical violence and coercive intimidation directly tied to an impending electoral contest or to an announced electoral result
• Universe of cases: elections in SSA 1990-2007
• Dimension variations• Who: incumbents vs. challengers• When: pre-vote vs. post-vote• Level of violence: high vs. low
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Broad patterns (S&T)Dimensions Statistics
Incumbents perpetrate 85% of violent cases
Challengers perpetrate 19% of pre-election violent cases40% of post-election violent cases
Pre-vote violence 94% of violent cases, 76% of high-violent cases
Post-vote violence 30% of violent cases; 37% of high-violent cases
High electoral violence 19% of elections
Harassment 39% of elections
No violence 42% of elections
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Determinants of electoral violence (S&T)
✓Smaller margin of victory
✓Less consolidated democracy
✓More migration; more group competition over resources
✓Middle-income
✓Past pathways to power
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Côte d’Ivoire, an example
www.revue-medias.com
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Côte d’Ivoire: prototype
✓Small margin of victory
✓Young democracy
✓Competition over resources, migrants/locals
✓Middle-income
✓Past pathways to power: coups and coercion
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Electoral Violence (A&J)• Politicians rely on patronage systems (corruption) to lower stakes of office and reduce uncertainty associated with elections. When they no longer have access to corruption, the stakes of office go up, leading to electoral violence• Contrasts with Structural argument
Incumbent Opposition
Business
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Determinants of electoral violence (A&J)• Test argument in 596 national elections held worldwide 1985-2005
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But Kenya? Isn’t Kenya highly corrupt? Didn’t it experience violence?
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• Useful to identify broad patterns (Straus and Taylor)
• But when it comes to explaining electoral violence, need to think about (Arriola and Johnson)
• Actors
• Preferences
• Strategies
• Political elites want to stay in power and employ a menu of options to do so
• Trade-off between corruption and electoral violence
In sum
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Q: Political scientists like to explain things like conflict and violence as the outcomes of trade-offs leaders face. Which of the following is not a trade-off we have discussed in this class?
a. Trade off between rebellions and coupsb. Trade off between winning a primary election
and winning a national electionc. Trade off between corruption and electoral
violence
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Electoral Violence
POLI 120N: Contention and Conflict in Africa Professor Adida