Crossing Over: Essays on Ethnic Parties, Electoral Politics, and Ethnic Social Conflict
Description:
This dissertation analyzes several topics related to political life in ethnically divided societies. In chapter 2, I study the relationship between ethnic social conflict, such as protests, riots, and armed inter-ethnic violence, and bloc partisan identification. I find that protests have no effect on bloc support for political parties, riots increase bloc partisan identification, and that armed violence reduces this phenomenon. In chapter 3, I analyze the factors that influence the targeting o…
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Date:
August 2017
Creator:
Stewart, Brandon