Votes and violence : electoral competition and communal riots in India
Wilkinson, Steven I.
Votes and violence : electoral competition and communal riots in India - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2005 - xiii,293,iiip. - Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics .
Contents
List of figures viii
List of tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. The electoral incentives for ethnic violence 1
2. Explaining town-level variation in Hindu-Muslim violence 19
3. State capacity explanations for Hindu-Muslim violence 63
4. The consociational explanation for Hindu-Muslim violence 97
5. The electoral incentives for Hindu-Muslim violence 137
6. Party competition and Hindu-Muslim violence 172
7. The electoral incentives for ethnic violence in comparative perspective 204
8. Democracy and ethnic violence 236
Appendices 243
References 267
Index. 283
9780521672813
303.6 / WIL
Votes and violence : electoral competition and communal riots in India - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2005 - xiii,293,iiip. - Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics .
Contents
List of figures viii
List of tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. The electoral incentives for ethnic violence 1
2. Explaining town-level variation in Hindu-Muslim violence 19
3. State capacity explanations for Hindu-Muslim violence 63
4. The consociational explanation for Hindu-Muslim violence 97
5. The electoral incentives for Hindu-Muslim violence 137
6. Party competition and Hindu-Muslim violence 172
7. The electoral incentives for ethnic violence in comparative perspective 204
8. Democracy and ethnic violence 236
Appendices 243
References 267
Index. 283
9780521672813
303.6 / WIL