Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/322131 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 35/25
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
In post-war elections a large number of citizens vote for political parties with deep roots in the violent organizations of the past. However, despite the prevalence of rebel, militia, and military successor parties, their success varies dramatically. This study explores the correlates of civil war belligerent party performance in contexts emerging from ethnic wars fought over government control and over territory. It seeks to understand how parties with coercive legacies seek votes and why, in turn, citizens go to the polls and elect these parties to political office following these different types of conflicts. The study embeds illustrative case studies of ethnic wars within an original cross-national database of founding post-war elections between 1970 and 2015.
Subjects: 
post-war elections
ethnic war
case studies
cross-national data
violent organizations
parties
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ISBN: 
978-92-9256-592-3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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