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The Politics of Mass Killing in Autocratic Regimes

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Speaks to four main academic topics: political violence, and mass killing in particular; repression in autocracies; civil disobedience and dissent; and the interaction between domestic politics and market equilibria
  • Offers case studies of relevance to broader policy research in international development
  • Addresses important theoretical and empirical areas that have not received sufficient scholarly attention

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • Bumba Mukherjee, Ore Koren
    Pages 1-35
  3. Urban Development and Mass Killing: A First Look at the Data

    • Bumba Mukherjee, Ore Koren
    Pages 83-117
  4. Statistical Analysis of Food Crises and Mass Killing

    • Bumba Mukherjee, Ore Koren
    Pages 119-151
  5. Conclusion

    • Bumba Mukherjee, Ore Koren
    Pages 253-274
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 275-303

About this book

This book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Using a combination of game-theoretic, statistical, and qualitative approaches, this project explicates when civilians within nondemocratic states will mobilize against the ruling elite, and when such mobilization will result in mass killing. In doing so, it illustrates the important role urbanization and food insecurity historically played, and will continue to play, in generating extreme forms of civilian victimization.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA

    Bumba Mukherjee

  • Department of Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA

    Ore Koren

About the authors

Bumba Mukherjee is Professor of Political Science at Penn State University, USA. He has been Visiting Research Scholar and Faculty Fellow at Princeton University and Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He is the author of Democracy and Trade Policy in Developing Countries (2016), Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships (2016), and Democracy, Electoral Systems and Judicial Empowerment (2014). 

Ore Koren is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Previously, he was U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security Fellow at Dartmouth College and a Jennings Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. His research has appeared in multiple academic journals, including Journal of PoliticsInternational Studies Quarterlyand American Journal of International Economics.

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Softcover Book USD 89.99
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