The new updated edition of Children, Youth and Development explores the varied ways in
which global processes in the form of development policies, economic and cultural …

Officeholders in contemporary parliaments and cabinets are more likely than not to be male,
wealthy, middle-aged or older, and from the dominant ethnicity, whereas young adults have …

" Taken together, reciprocity, commonality and preference make for a sense of moral virtue
that is rooted in privileged relationships between those who share some form of collective …

Although research has considered how poor governance, exclusionary politics and electoral
malpractice affect election violence, the effect of hate speech on election violence has not …

States are often minimally present in the rural periphery. Yet a limited presence does not
mean a limited impact. Isolated state actions in regions where the state is otherwise scarce …

Examining a key puzzle in the study of electoral violence, this study asks how elites organize
violence and why ordinary citizens participate. While existing theories of electoral violence …

During highly uncertain, post-conflict elections, police officers and youth-wing party activists
often engage in low-intensity electoral violence, which cannot be readily explained by …

Can political polarization, typically viewed as detrimental for political development, have
positive effects on institution-building and democratization in the long run? This article …

Cross-national research on African electoral politics has argued that competition increases
the prospects for pre-election violence. However, there is a dearth of systematic research on …

On 31 January 2019, masked men wearing national security apparel allegedly stormed the
residence of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate Delali Kwasi Brempong …