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Making gender visible in election violence: Strategies for data collection

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November 19, 2018

Making gender visible in election violence: Strategies for data collection

Source: Cambridge University Press

Election violence is an important issue from a number of perspectives. Understanding the causes and consequences of violations of personal integrity is always relevant, but election violence adds a different dimension to this already serious issue: it also violates electoral integrity and decreases democratic quality (Norris 2013). Therefore, election violence should be studied as a simultaneous violation of personal and electoral integrity. In this contribution, I define election violence as occurring when (1) the goal of the act is to affect an electoral outcome or prevent someone from running in an election, and (2) the means by which it is carried out violates the personal integrity of individuals involved in the electoral process.

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Author
Elin Bjarnegård
Publisher
The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association
Publication year
2018
Focus areas

Election violence is an important issue from a number of perspectives. Understanding the causes and consequences of violations of personal integrity is always relevant, but election violence adds a different dimension to this already serious issue: it also violates electoral integrity and decreases democratic quality (Norris 2013). Therefore, election violence should be studied as a simultaneous violation of personal and electoral integrity. In this contribution, I define election violence as occurring when (1) the goal of the act is to affect an electoral outcome or prevent someone from running in an election, and (2) the means by which it is carried out violates the personal integrity of individuals involved in the electoral process.

Click here to see the academic article.

Resource type
Author
Elin Bjarnegård
Publisher
The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association
Publication year
2018
Focus areas