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Merete Bech Seeberg 'Candidate selection and intra-party violence ' 5 April 2016

Download the paper at: http://bit.ly/1V5SuBS -------------------------------- Electoral violence is a major concern in both autocracies, democratizing regimes, and sometimes even in established democracies. But not all violence occurs between parties. Rather, much election-related violence arises as a result of intra-party competition over candidate selection prior to the national election campaign. Intra-party violence, although often emphasized in case studies, has never been systematically investigated on a cross-national basis. This paper is the first in a special issue on intra-party violence and asks: What are the causes and triggers of intra-party violence during candidate selection processes? Taking the new literature on electoral violence as a starting point, the paper builds a framework for understanding intra-party violence during candidate selection processes. Societal factors such as ethnic fragmentation, control over coercive forces such as the military, police, and private militias, and the more general prevalence of violence (for instance in a post-conflict setting) are taken into account. But focus is also on the importance of competition (is the race close?) and stakes (how much power, control over resources, etc. will the eventual winner achieve?). In addition, factors specific to dynamics of intra-part violence, including the internal organization of the country’s major political parties, are taken into account. In the following articles in the issue, this explanatory framework is put to the test in a number of African cases. Discussant: Dr Carolien van Ham (University of New South Wales) Chair: Dr Ferran Martínez i Coma (University of Sydney) -------------------------------- The Electoral Integrity Project is an independent research team based at the University of Sydney and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. It explores many issues, focusing upon three main questions: When do elections meet international standards of electoral integrity? What happens when elections fail to do so? And what can be done to mitigate these problems? For more information see: www.electoralintegrityproject.com