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Cover 1 About the editors 4 Title Page 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Abbreviations 10 Acknowledgements 14 Introduction: The everyday politics of electoral violence in Africa 16 The phenomenon of electoral violence 20 Looking beyond the national: shifting the level of analysis 23 Between democracy and Big Man politics 25 ‘Stomach infrastructure’, high stakes, and the struggle for power at the centre 26 Competition, ethno-regional politics and close races 28 Institutional (dis)incentives and constraints on violence 30 Chapter outline 32 References 36 1: Ethnic politics and elite competition: the roots of electoral violence in Kenya 42 Introduction 42 Ethnic politics, identity formation and electoral violence 44 Kenya’s violent transition 45 The 1992 elections 46 Exclusionary ethnic identity and victimisation 48 Ethnic political mobilisation 51 Electoral violence beyond 1992 54 Conclusions 56 Notes 57 References 58 2: Wielding the stick again: the rise and fall and rise of state violence during presidential elections in Uganda 62 Introduction 62 Previous research on government-sponsored violence 63 Framework and argument: competition, rewards, sanctions and experiences 64 Electoral aut

Author

Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs, Jesper Bjarnesen

Published

2018

Language

EN