Elections are correlated with violence globally
Increasing rate of elections across the globe may see rising rates of electoral violence
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- Risk factors
- Historical and structural factors
- Previous history
- 'Winner-take-all' politics
- Post-conflict elections
- State-led factors
- Candidate exclusion
- State-sponsored violence
- Manipulation of electoral bodies
- Opposition mobilisation
- Close or landslide elections
- Electoral terrorism
- Bellwethers of instability
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