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Bullets for Ballots: Electoral Violence in Insurgencies

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Political institutions are “weapons” in the struggle for political power. Since the elections can provide insurgent political power and access resource, the insurgent has good reasons to engage in electoral politics. And this chapter is an attempt to explore the rationales of the insurgent/terrorist organizations to engage in electoral politics and electoral violence. The first section explores the importance of elections for the insurgent. The second section analyzes election violence from several aspects and identifies actors and rationales of it. The third section deals with pre-election violence and establishes a theoretical framework by introducing four main reasons of pre-election violence and five factors that could replace the government. And the final section focuses on the post-election and its main reason, electoral results.

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  1. Turkish National Police, Ankara, Turkey

    Nadir Gergin Ph.D.

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Gergin, N. (2016). Bullets for Ballots: Electoral Violence in Insurgencies. In: Dawoody, A. (eds) Eradicating Terrorism from the Middle East. Public Administration, Governance and Globalization, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31018-3_18

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