Votes and violence : electoral competition and ethnic riots in India (Record no. 61689)
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| fixed length control field | 01317nam a22001457a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780521672818 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 303.6208900954 |
| Item number | WIL/V |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Wilkinson,Steven I |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Votes and violence : electoral competition and ethnic riots in India |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge |
| Name of publisher | CUP |
| Year of publication | 2004 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 293p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Why do ethnic riots break out when and where they do? Why do some governments try to prevent ethnic riots while others do nothing or even participate in the violence? In this book, Steven I. Wilkinson uses collected data on Hindu-Muslim riots, socio-economic factors and competitive politics in India to test his theory that riots are fomented in order to win elections and that governments decide whether to stop them or not based on the likely electoral cost of doing so. He finds that electoral factors account for most of the state-level variation in Hindu-Muslim riots: explaining for example why riots took place in Gujarat in 2002 but not in many other states where militants tried to foment violence. The general electoral theory he develops for India is extended to Ireland, Malaysia and Romania as Wilkinson shows that similar political factors motivate ethnic violence in many different countries. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Political violence |
| -- | India |
| -- | Elections |
| -- | Ethnic conflict |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BK |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Damaged status | Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 01/09/2021 | 303.6208900954 WIL/V | 53872 | BK |