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MOCHTAK, MICHAL
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Fighting and voting: mapping electoral violence in the region of post-Communist Europe
/ Mochtak, Michal
Mochtak, Michal
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lectoral disputes accompanied by violent outbreaks have become an emerging problem in societies under transformation, in authoritarian regimes, as well as in young democracies. The truth is that many politicians elected to office, their supporters, and political activists have altered their perceptions of electoral competition in a form of zero-sum logic with direct consequences for their opponents. After the fall of Communism in the beginning of the 1990s, Central and Eastern Europe stood at a crossroads. This period of imbalance and uncertainty affected the violent interaction in newly reformed electoral arenas with serious consequences for legitimizing democratic change. Despite the well-documented tension that existed in the region, the importance of violence in the electoral arena is rather neglected. The article approaches this gap as the first attempt to map electoral violence in a new typological environment where the process of transformation has affected political pluralism and the patterns of political contest. It argues that electoral violence is not a rare phenomenon in the region of post-Communist Europe and the dynamic varies on a great scale. Moreover, the article presents a picture of electoral violence occurring in different settings with potentially different contextual preconditions that need to be studied separately.
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Democracy
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Election
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Transformation
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Post-Communist Europe
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Autocracy
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Electoral Violence
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Prewar Public Discourse: Letters to Politika, Belgrade, 1988–1991
/ Glaurdić, Josip; Mochtak, Michal
Mochtak, Michal
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We studied prewar public discourse by analysing the origin, content and sentiment of more than 4,000 letters written by people from all walks of life and published in the Belgrade broadsheet Politika loyal to the regime of Slobodan Milošević during the three years directly preceding the Yugoslav wars. Our analysis combined lexicon-based tools of automated topic and sentiment analysis with data on the sociodemographic characteristics of the letter writers and their localities. The results of our analysis show the importance of the politicisation of a history of violence in shaping public discourse in the run-up to war.
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belgrade
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Prewar Public Discourse
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1988–1991
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Understanding Electoral Violence through Complex Textual Data: OSCE Monitoring Missions in Different Contexts
/ Mochtak, Michal
Mochtak, Michal
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The article analyzes more than twenty years of evidence on electoral violence as reported by Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission reports. It identifies prevailing trends of electoral violence in the OSCE participating states in order to better understand how the phenomenon is understood and framed by the leading international monitoring organizations in the region. The analysis utilizes a unique approach based on automated content analysis employing counting algorithms and latent semantic indexing. The results of the analysis show how electoral violence differs throughout the region while highlighting the qualitative variations in regional patterns of the reported incidents of election-related violence.
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Electoral Violence
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Complex Textual Data
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OSCE Monitoring Missions in Different Contexts
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