TY - GEN AU - Wilkinson, Steven I. TI - Votes and violence : electoral competition and communal riots in India SN - 9780521672813 U1 - 303.6 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - N1 - 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 ER -