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political violence is usually disequilibrating and illegitimate in the social system as a whole. According to this view not only is violence destructive of existing social order and stability but its occurrence is usually outside the legal norms and disapproved of by a large majority of people [Gurr 10, Eckstein 2].
Sep 8, 2017 · Abstract. This chapter provides a critical overview of micro-, group, and macrolevel theories of political violence, addressing the various causes, correlates, and consequences of political violence ranging from individual and group terrorist attacks to collective protest, ethnic strife, secession, internal war, revolutions, and attempts at ...
- Ekkart Zimmermann
- 2017
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This paper offers a unified approach for studying political violence whether it emerges as repression or civil war. We formulate a model where an incumbent or opposition can use violence to maintain or acquire power to study which political and economic factors drive one-sided or two-sided violence (repression or civil war). The model
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Chapter PDF Available. Political Violence. January 2015. In book: Oxford Handbook of Social Movements, Chapter: Political Violence. Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press. Editors:...
This commentary investigates. fi. four important drivers of political violence in the United States today: toxic political polarization, toxic identity-based ideologies, assaults on democratic norms, and disinformation and political conspiracies. Each of these contributes to violent political instability.
Political violence can’t be predicted perfectly, but international conflict prevention practitioners have determined a series of risk factors and warning signs that can begin long before violence occurs. While targeted violence often appears spontaneous, it results from years of groundwork.
