Explaining Electoral Violence in Serbia: fsQCA Analysis of Contentious Behavior in the Electoral Arena

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Authors

MOCHŤAK Michal

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Democracy and Security
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17419166.2016.1232621
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17419166.2016.1232621
Field Political sciences
Keywords Democratization; Election; Serbia; Violence
Description The article focuses on an analysis of incidents of electoral violence in Serbia in the period of 1990–2014. The main objective is to identify potential sources of contentious behavior in the electoral arena and, using a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), to select potential causal paths that can explain it. Theoretical discussion combined with the original data collected from OSCE monitoring reports open a space for the systematic assessment of the explanatory power of various arguments concerning electoral violence while discussing its sources and logic. The fsQCA analysis identifies two causal paths that explain the occurrence of the phenomenon in the country covering Milošević and the post-Milošević era.
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