Violent Victors : Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections Paperback / softback
by Sarah Zukerman Daly
Part of the Princeton Studies in International History and Politics series
Paperback / softback
- Information
Description
Why populations brutalized in war elect their tormentorsOne of the great puzzles of electoral politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities in war often win the support of victimized populations to establish the postwar political order.
Violent Victors traces how parties derived from violent, wartime belligerents successfully campaign as the best providers of future societal peace, attracting votes not just from their core supporters but oftentimes also from the very people they targeted in war. Drawing on more than two years of groundbreaking fieldwork, Sarah Daly combines case studies of victim voters in Latin America with experimental survey evidence and new data on postwar elections around the world.
She argues that, contrary to oft-cited fears, postconflict elections do not necessarily give rise to renewed instability or political violence.
Daly demonstrates how war-scarred citizens reward belligerent parties for promising peace and security instead of blaming them for war.
Yet, in so casting their ballots, voters sacrifice justice, liberal democracy, and social welfare. Proposing actionable interventions that can help to moderate these trade-offs, Violent Victors links war outcomes with democratic outcomes to shed essential new light on political life after war and offers global perspectives on important questions about electoral behavior in the wake of mass violence.
Information
-
In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:408 pages, 43 b/w illus. 31 tables.
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:22/11/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780691231334
Other Formats
- Hardback from £67.43
- EPUB from £26.25
Information
-
In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:408 pages, 43 b/w illus. 31 tables.
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:22/11/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780691231334