Inclusive versus exclusive authoritarian ruling coalitions shape electoral violence risk.

Evidence

To understand the different outcomes, our analysis highlights how the regime in each country used varying strategies to forge ruling coalitions during authoritarian rule. While Kenya’s single-party rule contained a relatively exclusive approach, based on a narrow support-base and active suppression of those excluded from power, Zambia’s single-party rule was more inclusive, based on a broader ethnic support base and with deliberate efforts to counter ethnic divisions. — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 94

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s threatened-privilege thesis: exclusive ruling coalitions create a threatened in-group whose loss of monopoly power readies them for electoral violence, i.e. the regime-type mechanism doing the work that pluralist-democracy theories attribute to electoral institutions. — connects to: Exclusionary authoritarian coalitions seed later electoral violence while inclusive ones do not. — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 4; Authoritarian regimes’ breadth of ethnic inclusion shapes post-transition electoral violence risk. — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 10; Electoral violence in ethnically divided societies erupts when elections become ethnic head counts. — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 14 (+10 more)
• DEFINE: Lays out the explanatory frame distinguishing inclusive from exclusive authoritarian coalition-building — the book’s core causal variable.

Related

• Exclusionary authoritarian coalitions seed later electoral violence while inclusive ones do not. (similarity 0.95)
• Authoritarian-era coalition-building logics explain later divergence in electoral violence between Kenya and Zambia. (similarity 0.91)
• Exclusionary versus cooperative elite coalition legacies shape post-transition electoral violence risk. (similarity 0.90)
• Authoritarian coalition-building approaches shape post-transition political incentives. (similarity 0.90)
• African ruling coalitions nearly always include some ethno-regional intermediaries, but inclusion depth varies (similarity 0.89)
• Authoritarian-rule legacies plausibly drive electoral violence beyond Africa (similarity 0.88)
• Authoritarian regimes vary in how inclusively they build ethnic ruling coalitions. (similarity 0.88)
• Authoritarian regimes’ breadth of ethnic inclusion shapes post-transition electoral violence risk. (similarity 0.87)
• Inclusive authoritarian legacies reduce zero-sum ethnic politics during democratic transitions (similarity 0.87)
• Exclusionary authoritarian regimes cultivate zero-sum perceptions that outlast them and drive electoral violence (similarity 0.86)
• Ethnic balancing under authoritarian rule built cooperative Zambian elites (similarity 0.85)
• Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund — Electoral violence and the legacy of authoritarian rule in Kenya and Zambia (similarity 0.84)
• Exclusionary ethnic coalition-building emerged only after Kenya’s broad early post-independence ruling alliance. (similarity 0.84)
• Electoral violence in ethnically divided societies erupts when elections become ethnic head counts. (similarity 0.83)
• Kenya and Zambia share parallel histories of single-party rule and ethnic geography (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Exclusionary versus cooperative elite coalition legacies shape post-transition electoral violence risk. #corroborates (0.95) — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 96
• Authoritarian-era coalition-building logics explain later divergence in electoral violence between Kenya and Zambia. #exemplifies (0.90) — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 95
• Authoritarian-rule legacies plausibly drive electoral violence beyond Africa #expands (0.85) — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 104
• Exclusionary authoritarian regimes cultivate zero-sum perceptions that outlast them and drive electoral violence #expands (0.85) — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 98