Fighting and voting : Mapping electoral violence in the region of post-Communist Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09546553.2016.1194268" target="_blank" >http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09546553.2016.1194268</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2016.1194268" target="_blank" >10.1080/09546553.2016.1194268</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Fighting and voting : Mapping electoral violence in the region of post-Communist Europe

Original language description

Electoral disputes accompanied by violent outbreaks have become an emerging problem in societies under transformation, in authoritarian regimes, as well as in young democracies. The truth is that many politicians elected to office, their supporters, and political activists have altered their perceptions of electoral competition in a form of zero-sum logic with direct consequences for their opponents. After the fall of communism at beginning of the 1990s, Central and Eastern Europe stood at a crossroads. This period of imbalance and uncertainty affected the violent interaction in newly reformed electoral arenas with serious consequences for legitimizing democratic change. Despite the well documented tension that existed in the region, the importance of violence in the electoral arena is rather neglected. The paper approaches this gap as the first attempt to map electoral violence in a new typological environment where the process of transformation affected political pluralism and the patterns of political contest. It argues that electoral violence is not a rare phenomenon in the region of Post-communist Europe and the dynamic varies on a great scale. Moreover, the paper presents a picture of electoral violence occurring in different settings with potentially different contextual preconditions that need to be studied separately.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Terrorism and Political Violence

ISSN

0954-6553

e-ISSN

1556-1836

Volume of the periodical

30

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

589-615

UT code for WoS article

000436840200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84978066531