Essays about: "electoral violence"

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  1. 16. Spilling The Tea On Electoral Violence Prevention : Can technical election assistance prevent electoral violence?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Agnes Cronholm; [2021]
    Keywords : Kenya; Nigeria; Zimbabwe; technical assistance; election violence prevention; electoral governance; international democracy assistance; electoral dispute resolution;

    Abstract : The international community has long sent democracy aid, and technical election assistance (TEA) has become increasingly popular in the last three decades. Despite these investments, little is known about the effects of TEA. READ MORE

  3. 17. Causes of Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Robin Torrusio; [2021]
    Keywords : Electoral violence; political polarization;

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  4. 18. Are the Interests of Women Included in Times of Crisis? : A comparative study of the substantive representation of women during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Southern African Region

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Janna Cederquist; [2021]
    Keywords : Representation; substantive representation; descriptive representation; democracy; electoral autocracy; Southern Africa; gender; female political representation; COVID-19; pandemic;

    Abstract : This study set out to answer how and to what extent the gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are addressed in parliamentary debates in the Southern African regional context. As both the proportion of women in parliament and the level of democracy have been established by previous research as important conditions for women to be able to act for women as a group, four countries with varying combinations of these factors are examined. READ MORE

  5. 19. Close to Home: The Effect of Proximity to Violent Protests on Hong Kong's 2019 Electoral Outcomes

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Matilda Fors; Andrea Schmidt; [2020]
    Keywords : democracy; election; Hong Kong 2019 pro-democracy protests; proximity; violent protests;

    Abstract : This paper aims to investigate the effect of violent pro-democracy protests on electoral support for pro-democracy candidates in the case of Hong Kong's 2019 District Council election. More specifically, we estimate the size of an effect resting on three theoretically and contextually informed microfoundations: violence in protests, geographical proximity of protests to voters' homes, and temporal proximity of protests to election day. READ MORE

  6. 20. Women's Role in Preventing Electoral Violence - A Study on the Impact of Women’s Situation Room on Electoral Violence in Nigeria

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Alma Molin Aziegbe; [2020]
    Keywords : Electoral violence; Nigeria; Women; Peace and Security; Gender-based violence; Women’s Situation Room; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the Women’s Situation Room Nigeria, a women-led project aimed to prevent electoral violence and increase women’s participation in elections. The aim of this study is to see what kind of impact this project has had on electoral violence in Nigeria. READ MORE