In 2001 the populist Thaksin Shinawatra came to power in Thailand, vowing to reform the
country's corrupt po liti cal system. His period of rule was characterized by heightened po liti …

This article introduces the Deadly Electoral Conflict dataset (DECO): a global,
georeferenced event dataset on electoral violence with lethal outcomes from 1989 to 2017 …

What are the causes and consequences of systematic measurement error in violence
measures drawn from media-based conflict event data? More specifically, how valid are …

The literature on electoral violence has focused on its causes as well as its scope, ignoring
the implications for citizens trying to practice their political citizenship. Informed citizens are a …

What are the effects of civil war violence on individual attitudes regarding the acceptability of
the use of violence in politics after civil wars end? Using data from Nepal, we test several …

What factors increase the likelihood of nomination violence? Nomination violence can be an
expression of both horizontal conflict, between local political elites, and vertical conflict …

Do experiences with civil war violence affect an individual's level of social trust? The
literature on this topic suggests that being a victim of violence or being involved in violence …

Armed conflicts frequently fuel tensions between groups. The “cognitive perspective” of
group identification offers a possible explanation, but is tacit on exact causal pathways. We …

More than affecting their academic performance, teachers' stereotypic attitudes may impact
society at large by shaping pupils' inter-group attitudes. Whereas particularly teachers in …

Extensive research has been conducted on the influence of ethnicity on conflicts.
Conversely, research on how conflict affects ethnicity has been more limited, tending to …