Aditi Malik (Massachusetts College of the Holy Cross)

Playing with Fire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Combining rich historical, qualitative, and quantitative data from Kenya and India, this book develops a novel explanation about the undertheorized phenomenon of party violence. It shows that levels of party instability can crucially inform the decisions of political elites to organize or support conflict.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781009444248
• ISBN-10: 1009444247
• Artikelnr.: 69233933

Autorenporträt

Aditi Malik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at The College of the Holy Cross. She studies political and gender-based violence, political parties, social movements and contentious politics, and ethnic and gender politics with regional specializations in Africa and South Asia. Malik has conducted fieldwork on these topics in Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Cambodia, India, and Nepal.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1. Parties and political violence
2. A theory of party instability and political violence
3. The development of divergent parties and party systems in Kenya and India
4. Party instability and political violence in Kenya
5. Party fragility and subnational patterns of violence in Kenya's rift valley and coast regions
6. Party stabilization, declining riot violence, and new modalities of political conflict in India
7. Party politics and subnational trajectories of riot violence in India's Hyderabad and Meerut cities
8. Party instability and political violence: comparative insights from Ghana and Turkey
9. Conclusion
Appendix A. National and subnational correlations between replacement volatility and alternative measures of party instability
Appendix B. Elite interviews
Appendix C. The development of civil society in Kenya and India
References
Datasets.